THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
NEWS NOTES OF
THE NORTHWEST
National Topics Interpreted
by William Bruckart
Washington. — Although it has
been three weeks since the Supreme
court of the Unit-
Wagner Act ed States upheld
Decisions the Wagner labor
relations act, I
doubt that there is more than a
mere handful of people in this na
tion who are able to comprehend the
full significance of those decisions
of the highest court. The chances
are, if our present form of govern
ment remains and we continue to
adhere to our Constitution, the full
import of the so-called Wagner act
decisions (there were five of them)
will not be discovered within a
quarter of a century.
No decision of the Supreme court
in several decades contains the wide
range of potentialities found in the
decisions of April 12 and it may well
be that the findings of the court at
that time will constitute a turning
point in United States history.
There are so many potentialities
to be found in the Wagner act de
cisions that one may reasonably ex
press a doubt whether states have
any rights left. Likewise, one may
express a doubt whether labor
and the friends of labor have won
or lost in the determination by the
high court that the National Labor
Relations board has power to com
pel an employer to deal with a ma
jority of his workers, organized into
union form. Above and beyond these
phases lies another, namely, the
question whether the United States
congress does not have power to
legislate strikes out of existence.
First, I am convinced in review
ing the court’s action that there has
been a tremendous amount of mis
information spread about the find
ings of the court. Never in my
period of service in Washington
have I seen so many different con
structions placed upon an official
act. We have seen and heard un
measured criticism of the court for
turning business over to the labor
unions ; we have witnessed a renew
al of attacks on the Supreme court
because it did not go far enough
to the radical side in granting pow
er to congress and the President,
and we have been deluged with talk
of what can now be done in a legis
lative way to carry out Mr. Roose
velt’s theme song, “The More Abun
dant Life.” The truth is, however,
that the Supreme court in deciding
the Wagner act cases actually re
stated in a clarified manner a posi
tion the court took twelve years ago.
It was in 1925 that the court decid
ed the so-called second Coronado
coal mining case. In that opinion,
the court laid down the rule, al
though it was obscured, that ob
stacles to production constituted an
interference with interstate com
merce. In the cases this month, the
court reaffirmed and restated that
very theory of law and government,
because it declared in the Jones and
Laughlin Steel company case that
failure of the employer to permit
settlement of the strike through an
official agency of the government
constituted interference with inter-
state commerce. Hitherto, the con
ception of interstate commerce gen
erally has been limited to trans
portation of goods or communica
tion across state lines.
To show the similiarity, it is nec
essary only to recall that striking
miners attempted to close en
trances to the Coronado mines in
Colorado. The cases went to the
Supreme court which held that ille
gal attempts to close the mines con
stituted an interference with ship
ment of the products into interstate
commerce. So, I am quite con
vinced that the job the Supreme
court did in this instance and as
far as it relates to the orgy of New
Deal theories consists only of clari
fying the legal definition of inter
state commerce. Laymen are not
concerned with legal technicalities,
nor do they understand them, but
they do understand facts and it was
facts in the Jones-Laughlin case up
on which the court predicated its
decision notwithstanding the wild
acclaim by New Dealers for the
“enlightened” construction of the
Constitution in that opinion.
• • •
Any attempt to point out what
the Wagner act decisions mean and
how far they go is
Antes at bound to lead into
Ditcuteion
a maze of compli
cated discussion.
I have no intention of getting my
self so entangled despite the de
grees in law that I hold. I am a
firm believer in the declaration that
human nature works out its prob
lems after the manner of slow and
orderly development.
But there are certain circum
stances connected with the present
court rulings and conditions of this
day that may probably be discussed
without becoming involved in de
spised legal technicalities.
I mentioned earlier that if the
court, as it did, could find that ob
struction of production constituted
interference with interstate com
merce, it seems quite obvious that
interference may come from em
ployees as well as employers. It is
a fact, therefore, that when the
steel company here concerned re
fused to obey the mandate of the
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of Special Interest to
Oregon, Washington and
Idaho Communities.
BURLEY, Ida.—Beet growers of
National Labor Relations board it Surley, Oakley, Rupert and Paul will
DRELLY
prevented a settlement of a strike. receive a total of $62,125 aa their
if Has
(PAR «RUS$83
It must be a fact, therefore, that first participating payment for their
a strike of the sit-down type con 1936 crop of beets.
stitutes interference with production
GRANGEVILLE, Ida_Joseph W.
and consequently interferes with in
terstate commerce. The next con snd Louie P. Klapprich, brothers,
clusion, and it seems perfectly ob have sold their 400 acres of wheat
vious, is that if congress can legis land near Cottonwood to Leander J.
late against employer and prevent Wimhoff for $30,000.
him from interfering with interstate
ROSEBURG, Ore.—Authorization
commerce, it can legislate to pre
vent the workers from interfering for 10,000 booklets explanatory of
the resources of the Umpqua valley
with interstate commerce.
Browsing Among Books an Outdoor Sport in Boston.
Now, we come to the point, men has been given jointly by the Doug
Prepared by National Geographic Society,
form part of the army of 2.000,000
las
county
court
and
the
Roseburg
tioned earlier, of the danger inherent
Washington, D. C.—WNU Service.
visitors, more or less, who flock
in any situation where congress Chamber of Commerce.
TUDY Boston from the high back to Boston each season and
starts legislating on the question of
POMEROY, Wash.—Work will be
tower of the customhouse. It swarm out to the historic towns
human rights. Congresses before gin soon on the Pataha Creek recrea
looks down on that cobweb about it. They want to see the old
this time have been fair and con tional project, under supervision of
maze of narrow, crooked
gresses hereafter may be fair in forestry officials. The dam contem streets which marks the “city lim places where their ancestors lived,
enacting legislation dealing with the plated to create an artifical lake will its” of bygone days, when cows and spots famous in the annals of
early days: Bunker Hill monument;
delicate matter of human rights. be completed by July 1.
grazed on the Common and clipper Faneuil hall; the site of the Boston
But where is the assurance that
KENNEWICK, Wash. — The city ships traded with China and Bom Tea Party; Old North church; Paul
they will do so? How can we tell
Revere’s house; the tomb of Mother
council
has renewed an old ordinance bay.
but that at some future time a con
In the shadow of modern struc Goose; the site of the Boston Mas
calling
for
dog
licenses.
Residents
gress subservient to big business
tures squat many old-style shops sacre; the sacred codfish in the
may decide to lay down ridiculous have complained that doga chase cars and
“countinghouses,”
already Statehouse; and near-by Plymouth
rules about employment. It is pos keep people awake a night, despoil weather-beaten when John Hancock Rock, Concord, and Lexington, and
sible, for example, that some con shrubbery, and lawns and scare chil was governor. To Boston these are the Witch House at Salem.
gress may say that employers may dren.
more than obsolete architecture;
Today Boston prints more books
not hire workers above fifty years
HAILEY, Ida. — More than TOO they are symbols of her busy, au
of age. They seem to have that deer are reported gathered i. the dacious youth when she built and than when she was pre-eminently a
“literary center.” Manuscripts pour
power—if they can make it appear
Warm Springs district, north of here. sailed our first merchant fleet.
in to her editors.- Novels, carloads
that age becomes important to the
They ara following the receding snow
Modern Boston sprawls over more of dictionaries, and schoolbooks in
maintenance of constant production.
I admit this sounds ridiculous. line into the higher Sawtooth moun than 1,000 square miles and counts Spanish and English, Sanskrit and
I intended that it should sound ridic tains. The sight has become an at some 2,300,000 people in her metro Eskimo, are shipped from here, of
ulous. It has been mentioned as an traction for Sunday motorists from politan district. Much of that is in ten to markets as remote as Bag
the pattern of other American cities. dad.
extreme case to show what may be the lower country.
But the old Boston, so like parts of
Great Place for Book Printing.
possible if these new powers are not
GRANTS PASS, Ore.—School boy
wisely used. It exemplifies, more police proved their effectiveness at ancient London, is unique in the
Her Golden Age of letters, when
over, what a factor uncertainty is the Grants Pass high school one night United States.
Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow,
Come down from the tower now Whittier, Holmes and Lowell used
when too much power has been recently when they apprehended and
granted any agency of the govern held for officers two youths seen and see how certain of these streets to frequent the Old Corner Book
ment, be it national or state or lo stealing gasoline from automobiles are devoted to a particular enter Store, passed with the rise of New
prise. This one smells of hides and
cal.
parked near the school while the oc leather; along that one you see only York as a market for manuscripts.
• • •
But curious visitors still seek out
cupants were attending a play.
the gilded signs of shoe manufactu- Emerson’s old home at Concord;
Now, to touch up on some of the
BOISE, Ida.—More and more, ac turers. One section smells of fish, they prowl through the country
unsettled issues resulting from
.
the court’s pro- cording to State Bacteriologist Peter another of wool, and here is a wharf house of Louisa M. Alcott—admis
Unsettled nouncement:
son, the people of Idaho are coming fragrant with bananas.
sion 25 cents—and drop a tear for
Turn up the hill toward the vener “Little Women.” For another 2 5
Issues
All that has to recognize the importance of tick
been obtained un vaccine to prevent the Rocky Moun able Transcript, with its columns of cents they see the “House of Seven
der the Wagner act decisions is tain fever. More than three times as genealogy, and you smell newsprint, Gables” at Salem.
complete recognition of the right of many applications for tick vaccine fresh ink, roasting coffee, and sec
In American letters Dana's “Two
organized labor groups to bargain are on file as the department of pub ond-hand books stacked in the open Years Before the Mast,” Melville’s
air—any book from Gray’s “Elegy” “Moby Dick” or “Typee,” and the
collectively free from employer lic welfare has doses.
to “Anthony Adverse.”
domination. The principle of ma
brilliant historical work of Prescott,
BEND,
Ore.
—
Efforts
to
preserve
jority rule is laid down. An em
Even the odd wording of sign Parkman, Fiske, and Bancroft must
scenic
strips
of
timber
along
the
ployer must deal with the repre
boards harks back to earlier days. long endure, as will other names,
sentatives of a majority of his work Santiam and McKenzie highways in “Victualers License,” “Spa,” “Pro from Edward Everett Hale, author
ers. The rights of the minority, the Sisters country, east of the Cas tection Department,” not fire depart of “The Man Without a Country,”
whether that minority be a com cade divide, are now near realization. ment and street-car signs in quaint, and Julia Ward Howe, who wrote
pany union or an independent union The secretary of agriculture has ap stilted English.
“The Battle Hymn of the Republic,”
are rather much overshadowed al proved a proposed exchange of fed
Old trades cling to old places. The to Thoreau and John Boyle O’Reilly.
though they can present t' *r griev eral stumpage for the roadside trees. Old Oyster House, live lobsters wrig
From Boston still come important
ances to the National La : Rela- I The exchange proposal is now in the gling in its window tanks, stands magazines for both adults and
office of the secretary of interior for just as it was a hundred years ago. youths. But it is the stupendous
tions board.
It is in that situation that trouble final consideration.
output of textbooks which as
Aged Carver of Pipes.
is foreseen. Most of the recent
tonishes.
SALEM, Ore.—Five hundred men
Before
a
window
at
30
Court
street
strikes have resulted from disputes are engaged in digging maple and
You can imagine the volume when
crowds
watch
a
wrinkled
artist
over union recognition. Largely this laurel burls in Oregon and Washing
carve pipes. At eighty-seven, wear you stop to think that between 25
union recognition question resulted
and 30 million American children
from the maneuverings and agita ton, making this industry one which ing no glasses, he works as skill alone are enrolled in schools; that
tion by John L. Lewis and his Com is attracting considerable attention. fully as when he began, seventy they must have some 70,000,000
mittee for Industrial Organization. J. H. Van Winkle, operating in the years ago. Monk, Viking, and In books when schools open each Sep
But it is not to be forgotten that Silverton and Jefferson areas, in dian heads, skulls, lions, dogs—he tember, and that Boston is one of
the American Federation of Labor formed state employment officials. makes them all.
Give him your picture and he the chief textbook-producing cen
has several million members in its The burls, enlarged trunk and root
will
cut its likeness on a meer ters in the world.
formations,
are
used
in
furniture
craft unions. Thus, it can easily be
World Center for Textbooks.
foreseen that the National Labor manufacture and are valued at $25 schaum bowl. For a Kentucky horse-
Relations board is going to be con- to $35 a ton. Most of them are ship man he carved the image of that
“There are many schoolbooks,”
rider
’
s
favorite
mount;
he
even
fronted many times with a fight be ped to Los Angeles.
said an official of a publishing com
carved the “Battle of Bunker Hill” pany, “whose sales make that of
tween the C. I. O. and the A. F. of
WHEAT CROP UP
with 50 brier figures on one big a popular novel look diminutive.
L. Each one of these organizations
BOISE, Ida.—Idaho's winter wheat pipe!
They are handled not in dozens of
will claim that it represents a ma
Five workmen in pipe stores here boxes, but in carloads of 40,000
jority of the workers and, therefore, crop will amount to 12,656,000 bush
abouts
have
a
total
service
of
more
pounds each.
is entitled to be the spokesman for els, 16 per cent more than a year
ag, Richard C. Ross, federal statisti than 200 years. “A man is on trial
all of an employer’s workers.
“While some of our novels, ‘Uncle
unÄ
he
has
been
here
25
years
”
is
Tom’s Cabin’ and ‘Rebecca of Sun-
Most of us have seen how bitter cian, predicted recently.
a
favorite
joke
in
one
shop.
The estimate is 8 per cent below
nybrook Farm,’ for example, have
internal labor rows can become. I
Quietly another old sculptor
am sure that most of my readers the five-year average, he added. Com works, making “ancient” idols, rel sold more than half a million each,
will recall cases within their own bined stocks of wheat, corn and oats ics of the Stone Age, even a “petri our little school pamphlets such
knowledge where carpenters and on farms on April 1 were estimated fied man” for a circus in Australia! as ‘Evangeline’ and ‘The Courtship
of Miles Standish’ have sold at the
bricklayers have fought it out over at 4,438,000 bushels, compared with
Turn back and walk through the rate of a million a year.
the question of which one was to do 5,846,000 in 1936.
cathedral-like First National bank
“The task of getting sufficient
certain work in construction. It has
and look at its compelling murals, schoolbooks ready to meet the sud
FARM SURVEY DONE
happened hundreds of times and
dramatic themes of den demand every September, when
LA GRANDE, Ore.—A farm sur with their
each time bitter hatred has devel
merchant adventures by land and
oped. When the right to speak for vey of farm production in Union sea; or study the fascinating exhibit orders come in at the last minute by
a whole body of employees becomes county over a period of several of historic ships’ models in the wire, means that publishers usually
begin printing these books as long
the question for determination, it years has been completed it was an State Street Trust company.
as ten months ahead.”
seems to me perfectly obvious that nounced by H. C. Avery, county
Then
talk
with
men
whose
fam
“Books made in Boston are sent
the controversy will develop into agent.
ilies
for
generations
have
helped
Representatives from the granges,
one of white heat. And the labor ,
shape Boston’s destiny, and you be everywhere that English is used in
board will have to decide which one the fruit growers, the livestock in gin to sense what significant events, schools,” said another publisher.
should serve as the employees’ rep dustry and the county agents office affecting all America, are packed “More than that; in translation, they
go to scores of foreign lands. Re
resentative. In the meantime, the co-operated with Charles W. Smith in her 300 years of history.
employer can have nothing to say. and E. R. Jackman of Corvallis in
Boston cash and engineering skill cently orders came from Bagdad
• • •
completing the survey.
built several of the great railway for thousands of our Craig’s ‘Path
All of this may sound a bit fan
systems of America. Chicago stock- ways in Science.’ Arabic transla
TEACHERS' PAY SET
tastic; it may sound as an attempt
yards,
to a large degree, were built tions of Breasted's ‘Ancient Times’
OLYMPIA. Wash.—School districts
to borrow trouble. must in good faith endeavor to pay by men from Boston. She founded and a number of our other books
rtx Hou"/ n is neither. The
the great copper-mining industry in are used in the schools of Iraq. Not
a minimum of $1200 yearly to all our West; she was the early home long ago we granted the govern
and Wages situation is dis
cussed for the teachers, even though this might in of many corporations, famous now ment of Iraq permission to translate
reason that it is quite apparent some instance reduce the number of in the annals of finance, foreign Caldwell and Curtis’ ‘Introduction to
there will be new attempts in con teachers employed, Attorney General trade, construction, and manufac Science’ into Arabic.
“You know that the British Isles
gress now to write legislation con- i Hamilton held.
turing.
The opinion was for State Superin
It was Boston brains and money are a citadel of the classics. We
trolling hours and wages Repre
sentative Connery of Massachu tendent S. F. Atwood, who asked for that started the great telegraph and feel gratified, therefore, that our
setts, speaking as chairman of the an interpretation of the new law pro telephone systems that now girdle series, ‘Latin for Today’ is now in
house labor committee, declared viding teachers must be paid at least the globe. Miraculously, almost, wide use in Scotland and England.
the other day that such legislation $100 monthly, unless the salaries ex she turned the jungles of Central These volumes are the authorized
would be drafted and he entertained ceed 70 per cent of estimated reve America and the Caribbean isles books in New Zealand and at least
into vast banana plantations, and one of the states of Australia, be
no doubt that it would pass the nue of the district.
built up the greatest fruit industry sides being much used in South Af
house. Conditions in the senate are
rica.
different, but Mr. Connery's opin
GOODING, Ida.—A total of 21,800 the world knows.
“Latin America is today using
From Boston went groups of
ion must be accepted as worthwhile trees have been received from the
in so far as the house is concerned. nursery at the University of Idaho thrifty, energetic men to share in carloads of Boston textbooks. They
Thus, if congress undertakes such for Gooding county, of which 24,300 the conquest of the West. To Kansas, are Spanish readers, geographies,
legislation it is confronted with the are for farmers and 500 are to be especially, many colonists were sent arithmetics, hygiene books, al
necessity of doing something by planted on the local golf course by by the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid gebras. geometries, and others.
"In Ottawa I saw a wall map
company to circumvent the rise of
way of amendment of the Wagner the club.
another slave state under the Kan with tiny flags that marked the
act that will make union labor com
sites of Indian schools; many were
SPOKANE, Wash.—Every adult sas-Nebraska act.
ply with federal regulation instead
Lawrence. Kansas, is named for up within the Arctic Circle. All these
of leaving the Wagner act one-sided Indian on the Spokane and Colville
as it is. In other words, labor is reservation will receive $20 Im an old Boston family, and many a schools use our books. This summer
entitled to its dues, to its fair share mediately to help with spring crop budding Midwest factory town drew we had to hurry one new book
of profits, but it seems to me it is plantings. Authority for the payment its first artisans from that national through for publication early in Au
also entitled to be as subservient to comes from the federal Indian bureau training school for skilled mechan gust so we “might get it to these
schools before ice closed naviga
law as those who pay the wages. in response to petitions for such aid ics which is New England.
Descendants of these pioneers tion to the Far North.”
• Western Newspaper Union.
Thursday, April 29, 1937
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Odd Amusement of Ohio Indian
Of the pastimes of men in Ohio
history, the most unique was that of
Chief Beaver Hat of Summit coun
ty. When he was bored, he would
amuse himself by taking out his
prized possession—a string of 13
dried white men’s tongues—and
swing it above his head.
Strange Boys’ Names
Boys have odd names on the Is
land of Molokai, where Father Dam
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istered to the lepers some 50 years
ago. “Sit in the Cold,” "A-Fall-
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If they should make
vs hate as they
Our victory is lost.
A war thats won
by hate I think
Is won at too great
cost.
TCAM