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FRIDAY, AUGUST 28,1936
CONCERNING "CLOUDED
REASON"
Remington-Rand, Inc., has had a
strike on its hands for three months
because the management refused to
recognize or treat with the union rep
resenting its workers. In the course
of the strike, the management asked
the state court for an injunction. New
York has an anti-injunction law, which
provides that no injunction may be
issued in a labor dispute unless the
party asking for it has made every
reasonable effort to settle the dispute
The injunction was issued the
strikers appealed to a higher court
and the appellate court of New York
upheld the injunction, holding that
the company had made "every rea
sonable effort" to settle the dispute
The refusal of the Remington-Rand
management to negotiate with the
strikers through their own chosen
representatives is not denied any
where. According to the appellate
court, therefore, it would be "unrea
sonable" to ask the management to
deal with its workers in the manner
expressly provided in the national la
bor relations act, and probably in the
New York statute as well.
This is just one more of the many
incidents which make one wonder
whether a swelled head and an atro
phied heart are not the marks of
hitherto unrecognized occupational
disease, peculiarly liable to attack
judges. The court went on to say:
"In such controversies—involving
as they do the livelihood of working
men and women and often, too, the
solvency and very life of going con
eerns which are large employers of
labor—self interest often clouds the
reason of those involved, often begets
passion and unfairness.
The implication that the Remington
Rand was so hard pressed that its
"very life" was dependent on bully
ing its workers is simply not true
A very few weeks since, financial
pages carried accounts of the grow
ing prosperity and dividends of Rem
ington-Rand.
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A MEASURE OF GROWTH
Howard O. Hunter, assistant ad
ministrator of the WPA, was talking
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ecently to newspaper men on the
terrific drought which is burning up
a goodly section of the West. The
rumor had got out that the WPA was
going to cut down its help to drought
sufferers. Mr. Hunter silenced this
by saying that no limit had been fixed
or even suggested.
Only those persons actually in
need will be aided," said Mr. Hunter.
"But WPA will continue to give as
sistance to those in distress, no mat
ter how high the number goes."
That cool, matter-of-fact accept
ance of the responsibility of the fed
eral government to relieve the vic
tims of disaster shows how far this
nation has progressed in social moral
ity—or perhaps in social intelligence
—during the past six years.
It is less than six years since
Arthur M. Hyde, then secretary of
agriculture, expressed his shocked
surprise that anybody should ask the
federal government to lend money to
buy food for the sufferers from the
drought of 1930. He could not coun
tenance such a thing for a moment.
The government could lend money for
seed to plant, and for feed for work
animals but to lend money to buy
human food—that would tend to de
stroy our government. It would be
"a perilous approach to the dole."
The Red Cross would attend to feed
ing the humans.
We have at least grown beyond the
point where our public men are af
flicted with such economic lunacy
as that,
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WHAT NEXT?
A revolver more than twice as
powerful as the standard police service
revolver and firing with sufficient
force to demolish an automobile en
gine block, soon will be placed on the
market commercially, the United
Press says. It shoots a special .375
caliber shell so heavy it would blow
an ordinary revolver to bits. Cost of
the new gun will be approximately
$60. Officials believe only a few police
departments can afford to purchase
ample quantities of the weapons.
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Labor has been gaining members.
That's something that the foes can't
laugh off. Those who would like a
chance to see union self-destruction
are puzzled by the membership fig
ures. Let 'em be puzzled and damned.
o:—.
WISDOM
Self-government is no less essen
tial to the development, growth and
happiness of the individual than to the
nation.—W. H. Douglas.
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Rubber Workers' Local
Hits Sit-Down Strike
Akron, Ohio (AFLNS)-—The "sit
down" strike has been outlawed by the
Goodrich local of the United Rubber
Workers of America. An experiment
of the so-called "liberal" group within
the union, the "sit-down" strike has
been employed on a number of occa
sions. The resolution adopted by the
local banning this form of strike de
clared the union's policy is to settle
grievances through the regular chan
nels of negotiation.
Pay Cut of British Rail
Workers Partly Restored
London, Eng. (AFLNS)—The or
ganized railway workers of Great
Britain won a partial victory in their
demand for a restoration of the re
maining 2 V2 per cent of the 5 per
cent wages reduction imposed on them
in 1931. The men secured the restor
ation of 2% per cent in 1935, but the
national tribunal to which their claim
for wiping out the rest of the 2% per
cent was referred decided to grant
only 1 per cent. The decision affect
ed 400,000 railway employes.
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sometimes recklessly.
This is mobilization month—be
ginning this month, running into
next.
Europe trots out its war machines,
so each nation can get good and
properly scared of the others.
Italy—Germany—France—England
lastly Russia, with its biggest army,
perhaps biggest fleet of planes.
It is as if each one said, "Look
what I've got and lay off of me."
Everybody says, "We don't want
war"—and everybody keeps on mak
ing faces.
Here at home we can't throw too
many musty eggs, but at least our
face-making is internal. We aren't
making any faces across frontiers.
Can war be avoided? Yes. Will it
be avoided. You guess.
At home we have on hand what is
known as a political campaign.
It is filled with oratory, much of
which is bad. A great many are will
ing to forget all about facts and just
yell for a machine.
A mine strike in Kansas has be
come a real issue in the campaign.
Kansas schools also are a real issue
So are oil field wagons. They are rais
ed as symbols.
Roosevelt scored a bullseye
when he said it wasn't the work
ers who cheered when the su
preme court socked NRA.
Hearst, with two strikes on him
sails for Europe. That "two strikes"
business isn't a joke. One is in Mil
waukee the other in Seattle.
Remember the classic telegram to
Remington in Cuba: "You furnish the
pictures, I'll furnish the war." Maybe
it never was sent, but for years it was
circulated as the all-time classic in
putting circulation above everything
Speaking of Hearst, it must be a
great satisfaction to have $200,000,000
fortune and a reputation for about the
lowest wages in the business.
Among all important publishers
Hearst occupies a position unto him
self. Many refer to his support as
"the kiss of death." He has almost
never backed a winner. The few win
ners backed by him have soon lost
favor and turned out losers.
All who buy newspapers from the
boy on the corner are not friends of
the publisher.
One reader of Hearst papers exx
planed his weakness thus: "They have
better dirt."
Probably true. But the "drain
men" who get glorified are those who
fix 'em, not those who fill 'em.
There's a publishers' battle on for
radio wave lengths.
Labor ought to have a sock in the
eye for its pitiable failure to see and
act upon the advantages of radio.
Observe the two labor stations
WCFL and WEVD. Rendering fine
service, ranking high, demonstrating
that "it can be done."
Labor ought to have a chain of
such stations across the country.
Meanwhile publishers are grab
bing all they can get, creating a
perilous situation. Look ahead to the
time when law may forbid the mar
riage of radio and publishing. Little
good has come of it so far.
One reason: There are so few good
publishers.
WORKERS STRIKE
In Minneapolis Grain Ele
vators
Minneapolis (ILNS)—Workers in
Minneapolis terminal grain elevators
went on strike on September 19. The
men had been negotiating with ele
vator operators for some time.
The strike was called by the Flour
and Cereal Mill Workers' Union
Local No. 19,152, affiliated with the
A. F. of L.
Strike leaders reported a majority
of the employes of the elevators, stor
ing 65,000,000 bushels of grain, had
joined the walkout.
The strike forced two of the city's
large mills to suspend operations be
cause of a grain shortage.
Picket lines of the striking workers
were thrown around 30 terminal ele
vators and public warehouses. The
union estimated the number of pick
ets as 500.
Union heads said 8000 or more men
were on strike.
Union recognition, icreased wages
and improved working conditions are
demanded by the Flour and Cereal
Workers' Union.
The General Drivers' Union, Local
544, ordered a strike of 500 men em
ployed by 14 wholesale grocery firms
The union demanded that employers
sign a union contract.
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2,995 CCC Youths Got
Private Jobs in June
Washington, D. C. (AFLNS)—In
order to accept private employment
2,995 members of the Civilian Con
servation Corps left in June, according
to a report by Director Robert Fech
ner. Ttotal discharges during the
year ended June 30 were 145,995.
Fechner asserted that the voca
tional training applied in CCC camps
had been a large factor in securing
private employment for CCC youths.
Young men in the CCC are taught as
they work to drive trucks and operate
heavy outdoor machinery," he said.
They are given instruction in prac
tical forestry, the technique of soil
erosion control, various kinds of road,
bridge and dam construction work,
park improvement and a large num
ber of other kinds of work."
TOLEDO UTILITY STRIKERS
ACCEPT SETTLEMENT PACT
Toledo (ILNS)—The Gas Employes'
Union on August 20 accepted a plan
for settlement of the 10-day-old strike
at the Ohio Feul Gas and Northwest
ern Ohio Natural Gas Companies and
voted unanimously to return to work
The agreement was drawn by union
representatives and Edward F. Mc
Grady .assistant secretary of labor.
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