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NEWS-REVIEW. ROSEBURG. OREGON, THURSDAY. JANUARY 6. 1949 THIRTEEN Proposed Labor ' Act Changes Point To Bitter Fights By MAX HALL WASHINGTON, Jan. R-() President Truman, fulfilling one of his biggest campaign pledges, asked Congress yesterday to re peal the Taft-Hartley labor law and restore the Wagner Act with "certain improvements." He didn't say whether those things should be done all in one Cackage, or in two steps as urged y labor unions. The unions w ant to go back to the Wagner An right away, with any additions coming along later. The labor law portion of the president's State of the Union message was brief, general, and strictly in line with his previous utterances. The "improvements" he listed were the same ones he proposed In his State of the Union mes sage two years ago, before the Taft-Hartley Act was passed. They relate to such things as preventing strikes in vital Indus Aries, jurisdictional strikes, and (one type of secondary boycott. Mr. Truman said nothing about a line in the 1948 Democratic platform which advocated some provision to enable unions to re sist Communistic Influences Bitter 'Flghti Presaged All this leaves a lot for Con gress to work out. Bitter, time consuming fights are sure to come. Most of the Taft-Hartley Act would be wiped out, including all restrictions on the closed jhop, mass picketing, and unions' po litical spending. Mr. Truman said the Taft-Hartley law unfairly discriminates against working people because it "abridges their rights, curtails their constructive efforts, and hampers our system of free col lective bargaining." The Wagner Act of 1935, stripped of the changes which the Taft-Hartley Act made in it, simply guaranteed to workers the right to organize and bargain through their representatives without employer interference. 'Improvements' Listed The Wagner Act "improve ments" the president requested. wouia: 1. Prohibit Jurisdictional strikes. (Caused by disputes be tween rival unions.) 2. Prohibit "unjustifiable" sec ondary boycotts. (Union attempts to prevent other companies from doing business with the company involved In a dispute. Two years ago Mr. Truman said boycotts to protect wage rates and working conditions are Jusiiliafle. but boycotts supporling jurisdictional disputes are unjustifiable.) 3. Prevent "the use of economic force to decide issues arising out of the interpretation of existing contracts." f I This Implied that these Issues Mould be settled by an 'mpartial arbitrator, without strikes or lock outs; but neither today nor two years ago did Mr. Truman specify whether both parties should be compelled to arbitrate. I 4. Prevent strikes in vita! In dustries. His exact worcU: "With out endangering our democratic freedoms, means should be pro vided for settling or preventing strikes in vital industries which affect the public interest." (Thus the president did not sav whether he wants to keep the Taft-Hartley provision which al lows an 80-iiay delay in any largo strike that would imperil the na tional health or safety.) 5. Rebuild and strengthen the Labor Department. The president said, "Those units pronerlv be longing within that department should be placed in it." The president didn't name those units. Labor Department officials have asked that the Fed eral Mediation and Conciliation Service and the National Labor Relations Board be under their administration. Besides these proposals, the president asked that t!-e mini mum wage be raised from 40 cents an hour to "at least 73 cents." accord with their views about labor legislation. Murray said Mr. Truman "has kept full faith with the people who elected him." Green said the president's rec ommendations wil receive the co operation of the AFL. Both big labor federation-s, with a combined membership of nearly 14.000.000 promised to work toward constructive amend ments after the Wagner Act is restored. It Is estimated that 91 per cent of people who live beyond mid- lite develop none and Joint changes characteristic of arthri tis and rheumatism. WASHINGTON, Jan. S-IPI President Truman's call to Con gress for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act and restoration of the Wagner Act received ouick ap proval from both the CIO and .AFL.. ' I hat portion of his message was hailed by Al-L President William Green and CIO Chief Philip Murray as being In full Tele-fun by Warren Goodrich SOT 5 TLf&r "See, that'i uit part of what happens when you don't hang up the tele phone correctly." A receiver off the hook is a telephone temporarily out of service. The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. Wilbur Culp, From Air Base in Japan, Writes of Memorable Experiences An Interesting account of a derelict P-51 airplane crashing Into the orderly room of his barracks is related by Sgt. Wilbur G. Culp, now at Itaml Air Base, Osaka, Japan, In a letter to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Culp, 1117 Harvard Ave., Roseburg. They were warming it up when the brakes broke and it just piled into, the building," he writes. "It knocked our first ser geant out of the window and the I prop hit a typewriter and threw u inrougn ine ceiling. L,ucKiiy no one was hurt but we Just don't have one corner left of our base operations building." He continues: "It seems like all I have been doing lately is work ing. I worked the morning of Dee. 24, graveyard the same day, the afternoon of the 25th and again this evening, the 26th. "This afternoon some of the guys from our outfit went out to an orphanage and helped the Catholic chaplain distribute a mess of stuff he had collected for the kids. They had a mess of toys, oklclothes, candy, gum, four roast turkeys and about 20 gal lons of Ice cream. The kids had never seen any Gls before and at first they were afraid of us; but after we started handing out the stuff they wouldn't let go of us. They kept patting us and pinch ing us to see what we were like. We took out a mess of bubble gum and taught them how to blow bubbles. "The chaplain somehow man aged to get three cases of frozen fresh milk. The sister who ran the place said It would be the first milk that most of them ever had. You should have seen It. One kid would be running around with a pair of shoes, and another with an old shirt Just as happy as If somebody had given them a bike. Two girls sulit ' a pair of skates, and we had to get them together. After they finished with ail of the sniff the sister had them put on a show for us. They sang some songs and did a few dances. It really made me feel good to be able to do something worthwhile. The people who con tributed all of the stuff can't realize how juch a Utile Insignifi cant thing like a pair of pants can mean so much to a kid who is in an orphange where they have light fixtures, but have to spend their money on food and don't have enough to pay for electricity. Auto Excise Tax Repeal Sought by Earl Newbry SALEM, Ore., Jan. 6. ItP) Secretary of State Earl T. New bry wants the government to re peal Its automobile excise taxes and let the states have the reve nue. He said he has written Oregon's congressional delegation, and has urged other states to take similar steps. Newbry said the excise taxes were adopted to finance the war, and should have been repealed at the end of the war. He said If Congress let the states have the revenue, Oregon would get $13,000,000 more a year to spend on Its highway system. 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