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.
As many as 15,000 tiny young
oysters or spat can cement them-
selves onto half a bushel of shelU
planted underwater in oyster cul-;
tivation. .
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Beef Sirloin Steaks. . .Per lb. 73c
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Country-style Sausage lb. 49c
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