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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1954)
HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1954 PAGE SIXTEEN Former State Conciliation Chief Urges Change In Law By PAl'L W. HARVEY JR SALEM Wl The pleasant, little cray haired Presbyterian minister, who probably knows as much about mediating labor disputes s anybody In the state, thinks It's time that Oregon cot Itself acency that can help settle labor disputes. He Is the Rev. F. C. Schercr, who reslprncd a ear a?o as chair man of Oregon's Board of Concilia tion to become the slate's first labor examiner. "Oregon needs a conciliation service with teeth In It. Nobody even knows Just what the State Board of Conciliation can do. We ought to have a stale conciliation service comparable to the federal mediation service, something that employers and employes would respect," he said. "A real slate conciliation serv ice,'1 he added, "could step in whenever a labor dispute Is threat ened. It often could prevent labor disputes before they even get fitartcd. "In every labor dispute, there Is alwavs at least one point ol conciliation." This subject came up when I congratulated Schercr this week on the fact that he's no longer on the Board of Conciliation, which now has the stupendous task of trying AFL Voting Disturbs CIO OAK RIDGE, Tcnn. Wi By vot ing to accept a previously rejected 6-ccnt hourly wage Increase, AFL atomic production workers put the squeeze on disturbed CIO union leaders who said today the AFL vote would not block their de mands for a 15-cent boost. The AFL workers put teeth Into their leaders' recommendations by voting about 2-1 In secret ballot yesterday to accept the 6-ccnt wage hike suggestion handed down June 15 by the President's atomic energy labor relations panel. Disappointed CIO Local Prcsl. dent Emerson Pownall said today, "We thought that they would back us up. We wanted their support but they're not going to stop us." And he added: "We think we'll ?'tn out in the end. Always in the past, Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Co. has granted Identical increase to the CIO and AFL at bargaining time. The com pany operates all four atomic plants Involved here and at Padu cah, Ky., for the Atomic Eenrgy Commission. A wage Increase won't cost Carbide anything for, under the cost-plus contract, the llrm will pass. along the Increase to the government. Science Teacher Meeting Held OREGON STATE COLLEGE, - Corvallls Thirty-two selected high school science teachers from seven western states are at Oregon mate College for a unique confer ence aimed at Improving science instruction in high schools across the country. The teachers arc emphasizing ways for better tlelngr hi high school science studies and labora tory work with actual industry needs and situations. To do this, they are visiting various Northwest Industries, including forest pro ducts centers, fish and wildlife services, manufacturing plants and research laboratories. Selected from KUHS for this con ference and tour was Mrs. Gladys Herron, chemistry teacher. to settle the long lumber strike The law is so vague that the board will have trouble liguring out Just what to do. But by the time it vets going, the strike might be over. The Board of Conciliation never has done much. Many people didn even know it existed until a few davs ago. when It became em broiled in a controversy between Democrats and Republicans, The reason it never has done much probably can be found in Scherer's statement that when he was on (he board, he didn't know lust what powers the board has Trie argument over tne ooara stalled when State Sen. Richard L. Neuberger, Democrat who's try ing to win Guy Cordon's seat in ih U. S. Senate, demrnded that Gov. Paul L. Patterson fill the two vacancies on the three-man board, and give it the job of trying to s-cttle the lumber strike. The covernor said "no comment' to Neubertier's demand. But.when lumber workers from Sweet Home picketed the capitol in a demand hat the board Investigate and ar bitrate thr strike, the governor acted quickly. REQUEST Gov. Patterson asked the Demo cratic attorney general, Robert Y Thornton, if the board had Juris diction in the strike. Thornton re plied that It does. The governor then filled up the board and gave it the go-ahead in the lumber strike Investigation. The governor didn't like Thorn ton's opinion. He said Thornton ig nored his important question as to whether the board could try to settle a strike which crosses state lines, as the lumber strike does, It took Gov. Patterson 24 hours of almost constant telephoning to get somebody to take the th a nit less job of being the new member of the boara. He finally got J. L. Jen nines, retired Portland industrial list, to do it. All of this has the governor and his aides a bit worried, because the Democrats put the fjovernor on the spot. It might hurt the gover nor In his reelection campaign. STATE MEDIATION The governor's position has been that the Federal Mediation Serv ice Is doing all that anybody could to mediate the strike, and that the state couldn't do more. Also, he previously said he would order state mediation only when both sides requested it. But the employ ers didn't want it. The Democrats forced his hand. and the governor and his staff fear that the Democrats will claim that the governor sat Idly by while the strike crippled Oregon's economy.1 Gov. Patterson s answer is the claim that he has held many con ferences with both sides of the strike. Scherer, as state labor examiner. can't do anything about it He was appointed under the 1953 law which won't let unions picket unless they are recognized bar gaining agents. Tills lnw 1ms been declared un constitutional by two circuit courts ana is on lis way to the Supreme Court. y 4 1- ANOTHER LOCAL INDUSTRY is well on the way these days with the Introduction of the Mc Kendree chicken picker. Designed and manufactured by Scott W. McKendree, 1893 Del Moro, the chioken picker follows on the heels of the McKendree duck picker, put on the market last year and already selling in almost every country in the world. The chicken picker will operate from any low powered hand drill or mixer motor, will remove feathers, including pin feathers, and finish the chicken off with no hand finishing required. First shipments of the picker are now on dealers shelves over the Basin. According to McKendree, once the operator has mas tered the technique, a chicken can be completely finished in six minutes. New Antelope Pamphlet Out J4St off the press us a new pam phlet on antelope written by B. U. Mace in charge of big game for the Oregon State Game Commis sion. 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