Herald and news., January 12, 1954, Page 7, Image 7

TUESDAY,
JANUARY 12, 1954
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
PAGE SEVEN
Here Is Text tf Hisenhover Talk n Taft-Hartley
...HINOTON - Tlie text o(
Af,t KiiiUiower's labor roes-
V' 10 o,4s of the United
to me
. -...ith fnr consldei'H-
labor - management re
Tuese recommendations
are in the Interests both of working
men and women, and our business
and industrial community. In ,a
broader sense, they are in the in
terests of all our people, whose
prosperity is in so great a degree
dependent on the existence of yen-
uine mutual respect and good feel
ing between employers and employees.
'.other Drops In On Big
family Reunion Late
Pil0- ..miner's home yes-
union i ""., ,.t wns
kW '.i, notion to
ana j"-" "---
orrowers To
e Insured
SEM ifi The State Veterans
,Per,ns home "d farm loan bov
utrswltli iow-uuoi iim-.t-.o -
finance Director Hurry S.
man prance compan
Mondnv to make proposals for
insurance, which would pay off
mortises if the veterans die
..irans would pay for the
Uance. but they would gel It at
much lower i.
tily chargca lor nutn P'"'""""'
'Cov. ram ,j7.
iienm aepaniui;iu .
; plan. Oificials went to Call-
.nil to study that state's plan,
fnieh Is similar to that which
reson win have.
The loan program started In
and 50 million aouars nao
en loanea 10 ivuiwm mm vu..u
ir II veterans. Of tnat amount.
millions still is outstanding.
Jfife, Son March
gainst Husband
ST. LOUIS w s going 10
i sore before it's over."
This was the opinion voiced yes-
,-day by Mrs. George V. Harri
n as she and her 19-year-old son
icketed her husband's Venetian
ind factory In wnge dispute.
Mrs. Harrison and George Jr.
itounded labor officials by ask
iz for membership in Local 195,
Art. Carpenters Union. They say
's no Joke.
Th son said ins tamer naa re
:ed to increase his pay of 75
Tits an hour and noted he plans
get married in May. Mis. Hal
on said she had received nc
y at all for assembly and cut'
trie work.
Asked what her husband s (Uti
le was. Mrs. Harrison replied:
"He was just as sweet as can
Didn't say a word. He's going
be sore before it's over."
him
wander," when they asked
where he'd been since 1911.
Bolin. a ministor and farmer at
Altro, Ky., said he had come buck
for the two small sons he left here
with his first wife. He wanted them
to join him on his 115-acrc farm
in Breathitt County, Ky. But he
couldn't sell the idea to his two
sons now in their 40s.
As 43-year-old Roscoe Bolin put
it, "I've got a good Job in St.
Louis, and I'm too old to start
farming now." His brother Oral,
47, who lives in Evansville, secmeu
to agree.
The farm might be a little
crowded, anyway. Bolin said hi:
third wife and 111 of their IB cl'll
den are living there. The six eld
est live In Covington, Ky.
Bolin said he wandered awhile,
served in the Army in World War
I. settled in Kentucky and remar
ried. His second wife died soon
afterward, and he married again.
He snid he has been a christian
Church minister for 29 years but
he docs not have a regular pas.
toratc.
He learned that his first wife.
hearing he had been shot to death
in a card game, remarried and
moved to St. Louis many years
ago. She died in 1940. There was
no record of a divorce.
The card game rumor made him
mildly Indignant. "I never played
a card game In my life, he said.
This Held of legislation has had
a long, contentious history, n has
laKcn lime lor objective principles
to emerge which can command
mutual acceptance ol the funda
mentals which govern the comolex
labor - management relationship.
Although the process Is not and
perhaps never will be complete,
we have now achieved a measure
of practical experience and emo
tional maturity in this field which.
I do not doubt, Is responsible for
the relatively peaceful character of
recent Industrial relations. No
drastic legislative innovations In
this field are therefore desirable or
required at this 'time.
Federal labor-management legis
lation at best can provide only the
framework in which free collective
Dai-'ialmii'T may be conducted.- It
should impose neither arbitrary re
strictions nor hea"y - handedness
upon a relationship In which good
will and sympathetic understand
ing should be the predominant
characteristics.
The National Labor Relations
Actknown as the Wagner. Act ana
aaoptea In 1935 by bipartisan mu
jorities came into being because
American working men and women
needed the protection of law In or-
der to auai'autce Uem the tree
?xerci:ie of their right to OY.jiiDiz-:
into unions ana to bargain col
lectively throug.i representative ol
their own choosing. As unions be
came strong, a need arose to pro
tect the general . public
consequences ' of unresolved labor
disputes that created emergencies
endangering the health or safety ot
the nation. To meet this need the
Labor-Management Relations Act,
1947, commonly known as the Taft-
Hartley Act, was adopted by bi
partisan majorities,
In enacting labor-management
legislation, the Congress has al
ways built upon the legislation
wmch preceded it. We have never
turned backward. The' Labor-Management
Relations Act, 1947, was
no exception. It built upon the Na
tional Labor Relations Act, and not
only reaffirmed, but reinforced the
right of working men and women
to organize Into unions and to bar
gain collectively wltji their .em
ployer. The protection of this right
is fixed in our law and should re
main a permanent policy of our
government.
The Labor-Management Rela
tions Act, 1347, is sound legislation.
Experience gained In the operation
oi the act, nowever, indicates that
cuanges can be made to reinforce
Its basic objectives.
In the area of employer-emnlovee
relations the injunction has always
been u controversial process. It is
apparent, however, tnat wnere ir
reparanle damage Uueatcns, Hie
testrainuig elleci. ol an injunction
is required in the interest ol sim
ple Justice. Nevertheless, wnere
collective bargaining relationship
i ..icir, me i:.sui:ic:' uf mi injunc
tion often has the offnoi of making
settlement of the uispu'.G waica iau
to t.ie injunction more difficult.
Tncrelorc, 1 recommend that
from the 1 whenever an injunction is isouet,
Wasco County
Marks Birth
THE DALLES WJ Wasco County.
which once stretched to the Rocky
Mountains, observed its 100th anni
versary Monday. Public ceremonies
will not be held until Spring, when
the. county pioneer association
meets.
The county's boundaries, a s
drawn by the Legislature Jan. 11,
1854, included all land from the
Columbia River and the 46th paral
lel on the north lo the Califovnia-Nevada-Utah
boundary on the
south, and from the crest of the
Cascades to the crest of the
Rockies.
Five years later the county began
shrinking, first as territories were
created in Washington and Idaho
and iRter as 17 other counties east
of the Cascades were formed in
Oregon.
Reformatory
Move Asked
SALEM ifl Gov. Paul L.
Patterson asked his fellow Board
of Control nvmibers Monday to
join him in appointing a committee
to recommend laws governing the
proposed $1,500,000 reformatory.
The proposed laws would provide
methods of deciding which offen
ders would be sentenced to which
penal institution.
The committee would report to
the Board of Control oy Nov. 1,
and its recommendations would be
sent to the 195o Legislature.
The other two board members,
Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry
and Stale Treasurer Sig Unander,
approved the idea.
The big question is whether
circuit judges should make the
assignments of those sentenced, or
if it should be done, by the State
Parole Board.
Construction of the new institution
was stymied several weeks ago
when Ally. Gen. Robert Y. Thorn
ton ruled that the Legislature had
failed to give the board authority
to buy the site for the reformatory
The stale penitentiary and the
boys' training school now are the
two penal institutions.
under the Nations! Labor Rclauoo:
Act v:iere a collective bargainin:
relatioiiaiiip t:;isls between the par-
ueii, uic r'eucral Mediation unci
Conciliation Service shall empunei
a special local board to meet wiih
the parties in an cllort lo seek a
settlement of their dispute, I fur
ther recommend that in secondary
boycott cases, the application for
an injunction be discretionary.
The prohibitions in the act
against secondary boycotts are de
signed to protect innocent third
parties from being injured m labor
disputes that arc not their concern.
The true secondary boycott is in
defensible and must not be per
mitted. The act must not, however,
pronlbit legitimate concerted ac
tivities against other than innocent
parties. I recommend that the act
be clarified by making it explicit
tnat concerted action against 1)
an employer who is performing
"farmed-out" work for the account
of another employer whose em
ployees are on strike or 2)
employer on a construction project
who, together with other employ
ers, is engaged in work on the site
of the project, will not be treated
as a secondary boycott.
As the act is now written, em
ployees who are engaged in an
economic strike are prohibited from ;
voting in representation elections. !
In order to make it impossible for 1
an employer to use this provision i
to destroy a union of his employ
ees, I recommend that, in the
event of an economic strike, the
National Labor Relations Board be
prohibited from considering a pe
tition on the part of the employer
which challenges the representa
tion rights of the striking union.
I further recommend that for a
period of -four months after the
commencement of the strike, the
board be prohibited from consid
ering a petition on the part of any
other union which claims to rep
resent the employees. The prohi
bition against considering a peti
tion by the employer should con
tinue as long as the strike contin
ues, provided, however, that a
reasonable limit of time, which I
suggest be one year, be stipulated.
The act has been interpreted to
mean that even though a collective
bargaining contract is in force,
either party may .insist that the
contract be reopened for the pur
pose of bargaining about matters
that were not the subject of nego
tiations when the contract was
made. Thus stabilization of the re
lationship between the parties for
the period of the contract can be
complete!" frustrated. I recom
mend thrt the law be amended so
as to protect, both parties to a valid
collective bargaining agreement
from being required to negotiate
during its term unless the contrp.cl
so authorizes or both parties mutu-1
ally consent.
The national emergency provi
sion of the act arc essential to the
protection of the national hep 1th
and safety. As the act is now writ
ten, thp board ot inquiry estab
lished to inquire into the Jacts of
the dispute cpu.sing the emergency!
must report the facts to the Presi
dent without recommendations, in
order that the President may have
tiie authority to require the board'd
recommendations, I recommend
that after he lias received and made
available to the public the last re
port of the board of inquiry (if the
dispute has not then been settled),
he be empowered to reconvene the
board and direct it to make rec
ommendations to him for settle
ment of the dispute. Although the
recommendations of the board
would not be binding upon the
parties, yet there is real value in
obtaining the recommendations of
informed and impartial men for
the settlement of a dispute which
imoerils the national health and
safety.
Employees engaged in the con
struction, amusement and marl
time industries have unique prob
lems because their employment is
usually casual, temporary or inter
mittent. I recommend tnat in mese
industries the employer be permit
ted to enter into a pre-hire con
tract with a union under which the
union will be treated initially as
the employees' representative for
collective bargaining. I also rec
ommend that in these industries
the employer and the union be per
mitted to make a union-shop con
tract under which an employee,
within seven days after the begin
ning of his employment, shall be
come a member of the union.
Under the act as presently writ
ten, both unions and employers are
made responsible for the actions ol
their agents. In order to make it
clear that a union cannot be held
resDonsible for an act of an in
dividual member solely because of
his membership in the union. I
recommend that the act be amend
ed to make tht traditional common
law rules of agency applicable.
The act presently provides that
the facilities ot the National Labor
Relations Board are available on
1" to those union! whose officials
exectf nff iHnvits discln inline
membership in Communirt orgpn
izationr. The Communist disclaim
er provisions are not presently ap-
oiicablp to employers. I recom
mend that they be made anpMCR-
b!e. Specific proposals for lepis'a-
uon dealing with Communist infil
tration generally are now undei
study. If such legislation is- enact
ed, making the Communist dis
claimer provisions of the act un
necessary, I then will recommend
tint thev be entirely eliminate''.
The right of free speech is fun
daments. Congress should make
clear that (he rtaht of free speech
as now defined in the act, applies
ecu alb' to labor and management
in every aspect of their relation-
shin.
The act presently prohibits an
employer from making payment, to
a union to assist in the financing
of union welfare funds unless he
fund meets certain standards. The
standards are not adeouate to pro
tect and conserve these funds that
are held in trust for the welfare
of individual union members. It is
WE GIVE
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520 Klamath Ave.
my recommendation that Congress
initiate a thorough study of wel
fare and pension funds covered by
collective bargaining agreement,
with a view of enacting such leg
islation as will protect and con
serve these funds for the millions
of working men and women who
are uie benenciaries. i
The act should make Hfr n..t
the several slates and territories, !
when 'confronted with emergencies
endangering the health or safety
of their citizens, are not, through
any conflict with the federal law,
actual or implied, deprived of the
right to deal with such emertien-l
cies. The need for clarification of
jurisdiction between the federal
and the state and territorial gov
ernments in the labor-management
field has lately been emDhastzed
by the broad Implications" of the
most recent decision of the Su
preme Court dealing with this sub
ject. The department and agency
neads concerned arc, at my re
quest, presently examining the va
rious areas In which conflicts .of
Jurisdiction occur. When such ex
amination is compietco, I shall
make my recommendations to the
Congress for corrective legislation.
In the employer-employee rela
tionship there is nothing which so
vitally affects the individual em
ployee as the loss of his pay when
he is called on strike. In such an
important decision he should have
an opportunity to express his free
choice by secret ballot held under
government auspices.
There are two other changes In
the law that I recommend. The
authorization which an individual
employee gives to his employer
for the check-off of the employee'.-,
union dues should be made valid
until the termination of the collec
tive bargaining contract which pro
vides for such check-off, unless the
employee sooner revokes such au
thorization. The provisions of the
act which require reports from un
ions concerning their organization
and finance should be simplified so
as to eliminate duplication in the
information required by such re
ports.
I hope that the foregoing chang
es will be enacted by Congress
promptly, for they will more firm
ly establish the basic principles
of the law. The appropriate com
mittees of the Congress will, I
am certain, wish to keep the law
the light of experience under It
propose- further amendments to
implement its objectives and con
stantly improve its administration.
Government should continue to
search diligently for sound meas
ures to improve the lot of tho
working man and woman, mind
ful that conditions and standards
products, habits and needs of men
and women change. It will be con
tinually a challenge to government
to sense the aspirations of the
working people of our country, that
all may have the opportunity to
fairly share in the results of the
productive genius of our time,
from which comes the material
blessings of the present and a
greater promise for the future.
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