THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943. at the postoffice
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Nome, Alaska, Friday, July 22, 1949
‘People's Labor Law’ Better Name for Taft-Hartley Act
There is a lot of hooraw on both sides of the Taft-*
Hartley labor law scrap, and we might as well go over
the whole thing again.
Briefly the T-H law corrected for the general public |
and management some inequalities of the Wagner Act
that gave the labor bosses almost a free hand in running
our economy and every union member’s life.
Unfortunately, both labor and management have
propagandized the squabble with too much bias, so that
the unorganized public, as well as union members, real
ly do not have a true conception of the situation.
Before the Wagner act of the early 1930’s and prior,
management held the whip hand and wielded the lash
rather ruthlessly at times.
Federal enactment of the Wagner act put a stop to the
arrogance of management and switched the power over
to labor union bosses.
This wasn’t good, either. It was putting the squeeze 1
on the public in the same way, but with a different,
rampant set of squeezes.
Dissatisfied with the other extreme, the folks voted
in a Congress dedicated to correct abuses of the labor
bosses, just as voters previously had expressed disgust
with the oppression of workers by management.
Unable to trust either management or labor to con
duct itself reasonably, the voters elected a Congress of
men who said they’d correct the trouble by passing a
new and different kind of labor law.
This new act, devised to protect laboring men from
union compulsion and manipulation, as well as to pro
tect the rights of management, but most of all to equal
ize each segment’s power so that the public wouldn’t
get hurt, is known as the Taft-Hartley law.
After it was passed and placed in operation, flaws de
veloped, but not too serious flaws at that, judging from j
a national angle. The union bosses screamed bloody
murder and management licked its chops prematurely.
As it has turned out, no unions have been broken, no
union men seriously hurt, except by their leaders call
ing strikes aimed at trying to show the T-H law wrong.:
And best of all, management did not get back its whip. I
In fact, more cases have been decided against manage
ment than against unions under terms of the T-H act.
Regrettably, the labor bosses deliberately set out on
a smear campaign of the people’s law—the T-H act. For
that is what the T-H really is—a people s protective ]
law, favoring neither management nor labor.
In poll after poll and survey after survey, union mem
bers have shown a large majority of approval for sep
arate guarantees and principles of the T-H law, but, in
consistently, have opposed it as a whole. This can be
accounted for by the labor bosses’ intensive campaign
on the entirely false claim that the T-H law is a “slave
labor” act.
Union membership has approved sections of the T-H
act which:
Keeps union leaders from beating up people who do
not do as they are told.
Keeps union leaders from firing men who are union
members when they don’t toe the mark.
Keeps union leaders from getting men fired from
their jobs who insist on secret elections within the un
ion.
Makes it possible for union leaders to get sued for
damages when they break their contracts.
Provides that a man may stay out of a union if he so
wishes.
Provides that men don’t have to stop working when
union leaders call a strike if they want to keep on work
ing.
Keeps union leaders from stopping farmers’ trucks
and making them hire a driver they don’t need.
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Makes union leaders tell the workmen what was done
with their money.
Keeps union leaders from taking money that was de
ducted from a man’s pay check and using it to support
political candidates whom the man may actually oppose.
Provides that foremen and other representatives of
management do not have to be recognized as union
members.
Requires that union leaders swear they are not Com
munists. (If the union leaders really don’t want Com
munists in control of their unions they should welcome
this instead of fighting it).
It provides a means for the United States Govern
ment to step in and prevent union leaders from paralyz
ing the country when the national health, safety and
welfare of all our people are at stake.
If studied without the malicious prejudice the union
bosses have created by their shotgun indictment of T-H,
any good union man, friend of unions, farmer or other
sincere citizen of our nation cannot but agree that, in
principle, the Taft-Hartley act is a sound and a histori
cally necessary addition to our national code of statutes.
SHOULD U. S. PROTECT ITS OFFICIALS?
American officials, according to a Washington news
dispatch, believe that the mistreatment of a U. S. Vice
Consul will create a bad reaction in this country and
add fuel to the campaign against recognition of the Chi
nese Communists.
If the facts are as stated by some American officials
and the consular agent was “utterly, brutally beaten"
by Communist police, the people of the United States
should not be satisfied with a “reaction." the report
from China is that the consular agent was severly beat
en and forced to sign an apology for a traffic incident in
which the consular chief got mixed up with a parade.
A Communist newspaper in Shanghai intimated that
foreigners in Red China can expect the same treatment
in return for their “imperialistic arrogance.” The news
paper insists that the Reds will not tolerate foreign na
tionals who treat “our people with arrogance, rough
ness or slight.”
Sooner or later, if the United States expects to as
sume a responsible place in world affairs, the officials
of this country must recognize the necessity of extend
ing adequate protection to the representatives of this
government. While it might be foolish to take punitive
action against another country because of the mistreat
ment of one man, the nation cannot always excuse un
dignified and brutal behavior toward American official
representatives. The United States should require its
official representatives in other lands to be scrupulous
in their behavior and it should stand ready to back them
when necessary. If they are injured by those who would
seek to humiliate the United States, the government of
this country might consider retaliatory, or punitive ac
tion. In time, the process would probably involve fewer
difficulties than that of permitting American officials
to be mistreated abroad.
CHURCHES
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sunday—
8:00 a.m.—Mass
9:30 a.m.—Mass
10:00 a.m.—At the Base Chapel
LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
MISSION
Pastors—Rev. Theron McGrew
Rev. Paul B. F. Carlson
Sunday—
10:00 a.m. Eskimo Speaking
Service.
11:00 a.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Evening Service.
Wednesday—
2:00 p.m. Children’s Miracle
IBook Club.
Thursday—
7:30 p.m. Mid-week Service.
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FEDERATED CHURCH
Sunday 10:00 a.m.—Sunday School
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ASSEMBLY OF GOD
PENTECOSTAL
Third Avenue West
Miss H. E. Brown
Missionary in Charge
Sunday—
Sunday School.10:00 a.m.
Adult Bible Class.11:00 a.m.
Evening Service .7:30 p.m.
Tuesday—
Young Peoples Meeting 4:00p.m.
Wednesday—
Bible Study 7:30 p.m.
Friday—
i Bible Study and
Prayer Meeting 7:0u p.m.
EVERYONE WELCOME
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Third and Division
Pastor—Le*/is I. Hudgins
“When you give in to God, God
i will give out to you.”
10:00 a.m. Singspiration and Sun
day School classes.
1' :00 a.m. Morning Message.
7:00 p.m. Young People’s Meeting.
7:30 p.m. Singspiration and special
music.
P:00 p.m. Evening Message.
Wednesday: 7:30 p.m. Melody and
Prayer.
Come and bring your Bible.
You are ever welcome to attend
these services.
NOME GOSPEL MISSION
of
Alaska Evangelization Society
Rev. Vern Rimling, Pastor
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Sunday—
2:00 p.m. Sunday School for
boys and girls.
Preaching service in the Eskimo
language by James Savok.
7:30 p.m. Gospel Service.
Tuesday—
7:30 p.m. Bible Study—trans
lated into the Eskimo language.
Thursday—
2:00 to 4:00 p.m. K.Y.B Club for
boys and girls.
Friday—
7:30 p.m. Prayer, Praise and
Testimony.
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BAG THIEF BAGGED
BANGKOK, </P)—In the morn
I ing, two men posed as representa
tives of a business and made off
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illegally with 1,000 gunny bags
valued at $425 from Chop Seng
yong Lee.
That same afternoon, the same
two men tried to sell the same
bags to the same Chop Seng Hong
Lee.
The owner recognized his own
property and called police. One of
the swdndlers was captured.