Interior Labor
Warfare May Be
Cause Of Laws
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irresponsible labor groups by pro
hibiting their collection of union
dues.
Nobody Does Anything
The laws proposed last spring
are merely sleeping until public
opinion again presses them into
the legislative hopper. Next time
they may not die, particularly if
labor’s private war puts both em,
pjoyers and the public “in the
middle.”
And nobody in organized labor (
is doing much, publicly at least,:
to stop the flames of dissension
spreading through organized la
bor’s private estates.
On the contrary, leaders in la
bor’s rival households seem to be
pouring fuel on the fire with all
the enthusiasm of a small boy,
trying to burn down the school-!
house. The speeches of John L.
Lewis and William Green certain
ly do not go very far toward
Stopping the conflagration.
President’s Warning
President Roosevelt himself has
warned federal employees they
have no right to strike.
No federal employee has made
the slightest move to strike. Then
why did the President warn'
them? Because the rival labor
camps are organizing unions am-!
ong federal workers.
The President has gone out
of his way to express his ap
prehension. He has attempted
to choke off the growth of a
power that one day could
challenge the dignity of gov
ernment itself.
That can reflect nothing less
than a Presidential temper to
head off and prevent excesses in
labor activity—a disposition to re
gulate, if that should be neces
sary.
A Case in Court
Simultaneously, a clear-cut test
case between the Green federa
tion and the Lewis CIO is head
ing toward the Supreme Court,
from Ambridge, Pa., home of the
National Electric Products corpor
ation.
That corporation signed up with
the A. F. of L. unions, only to
come face to face with a CIO
contest before the national labor
relations board. The CIO electri
cal union charged the company
with coercing employees to join
the A. F. of L. rival.
Green’s faction promptly appeal
td to a federal district court
which just as promptly wrote its
okay on the federation contract.
But the labor relations board or
dered the employees to the bal
lot box to determine whether CIO
or A. F. of L. had a majority. An
other federal court has declined
to interfere with the board.
Regulation Begins
Now where does that leave the
warring groups within labor’s
ranks?
Just here:
One faction of labor (CIO) is
testing in the courts a closed
shop contract under the nations!
labor relations law, for such was
the contract signed by the elect
rical corporation and A. F. of L.
In other words, CIO has brought
into question the principle of the
cflosed shop—the principle for
which it long has fought—in or
der to protect its rights in Am
bridge. Pa.
The courts may not have to
pass directly on the point, but
one side will win in the case
somewhere along the court line,
and the public will form its own
opinions accordingly.
Thus the regulation of la
bor through interpretation of
its own magna charta—the
national labor relations act—
has already begun.
All these things reflect a mount
ing pressure to impose unwel
come responsibilities on organized
labor; and os long as labor’s in
ternecine war continues, that pres1
sure will remain to plague labor’s
hard won advances.
Tommy ManvilHe paying $200,-1
000 to be free of his fourth wife
should at least have the solace
of an honorary certificate for shar
ing the wealth.
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