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industrial peace
IS WADY'S GOAL
Assistant 1 abor Head Is
Ace in Settling Labor-
Capital Disputes
Pv C'HAKMSS P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, July 19, —Several years
aS o when Edward F. MCGrady, now
'lst assist ant secretary of labor, was
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mittee members asked: COm ‘
borT’’ 1U * 6 Speaking for organized la
asmuX answered McGrady, “and, in
tic late a i UUOrganized lab or is inar
ticulate, I am trying to speak for it
CH A RACTE RISTIC
of T th! ° bSei : Vation was characteristic
the assistant labor secretary.
m J be t F ° f L ‘ often has seemed to
° be self ishly concerned with the
interests exclusively, Q f its own mem
bership, Und as indifferent, as any
f “ oclat jP the interests of those he
ed amif^T o^ 13 own hi^hly-skill
ed affiliates. Indeed, when the late
Senat° r Robert M. La Follete, the
the n ° mlnated for President by
the in 1924, I saw a
wobbly” unceremoniously tossed out
of the convention hall by A. P. of I
sergeants-at-arms, who dominated the
gathering for attempting to speak for
the so-called “outlaw” element. He
a , talk on the Cleveland lake
! ™ denouncing the “tryanny of
ab -> which declared was “just
bad as the “tryanny of capital.”
When McGrady speaks, he speaks
oi all labor that will accept him as
its spokesman. »
NOT AN “AGITATOR”
McGrady distinctly is not what is
known as a “labor agitator.”
He not only settles strikes- he pre
vents them.
Undoubtedly he has settled or pre
vented more of them any any other
official in the labor department’s his
tory.
It isn’t alone conditions of today
that he deals with; he looks into the
future. Having ended a strike (such
as the longshoremen’s on the Pacific
coast or the automotive workers at
Toledo), he aims at adjustments to
forestall subsequent capital-versus
labor conflicts.
He is modest also. What he terms
his “Toledo plan” for heading o ff in
dustrial clashes in their incipiency, he
might have christened the “McGrady
plan,” and claimed the credit for.
Babson Cites 15 Reasons
For Unemployment Today
(Continued from Page One.)
employers and sane labor leaders,
alike, have the same goal even though
they differ vastly in their methods of
approach. This goal is the elimination
of unemployment and the raising of
the workers’ standard of living. Let
us try to visualize from an unbiased
viewpoint, what progress this labor
leader-sponsored measure may make
toward the common objective.
Almost every enlightened employer
believes in collective bargaining and
the right of labor to strike. So my
biggest criticism is not concerned in
any way with the Wagner act’s re
cognition of this right, but with its
unfairness in permitting coercion on
the part of labor leaders and forbid
ding it on the part of employers.
There is no question that company
dominated unions are un-American,
but 1 firmly believe that there are as
great a percentage of selfish and dis
honest labor leaders as there are sel
fish and dishonest employers. These
unscrupulous labor leaders are given
a powerful and dangerous weapon in
the Wagner act.
Boosts Sales of Labor-Saving
Machinery.
My second major objection is based
on the premise that labor union leg
islation of this general type discour
ages employers and increases the
number cf jobless Statistics show
that directly after the enactment of
such legislation there is a sharp in
crease in the sale of all kinds of la
bor-saving machinery. Employers, a
fraid of labor-leader domination, are
determined to get on with! fewer
workers. Their total payroll under the
new set.up may he less than before
and the number of technologically un
ployed will be increased, temporarily
at least.
Legislation, such as the Wagner
act, will force employers to be more
careful whom they employ. If em
ployers cannot discharge on account
of the “attitude, loyalty or radical
talk” of an employee, it may hence
forth be very difficult for persons
suspected of radical leanings to get
employment. Personnel departments
and detective agencies will reap a
hravest from such legislation; but I
KpTnTjSRSON. W. CJ DAILY DISPATCH. FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1935 ;
relieve it will do workers, as a whole,
only harm. Moreover, this, like most
other labor legislation, increases the
pries of goods and hence increases the
cost of living for the wage workers.
Wagner Act Misses Core of Job Issue
After all is said and done, I feel
that the Wlagner act misses the core
of the employment problem by a city
block. The reason that there are 10,-
000,000 joblss in the United States to
day is not because some unions are
company-dominated; it is not because
some employees are forbidden by
their companies to organize; it is not
because employees’ right to strike has
never been recognized by law; nor is
it a question of wages and hours.
These questions are only one phase
of the unemployment problem. Below
are fifteen basic factors which I be
lieve are (responsible for, the slov,
pick-up in employment.
1. The 4,000,000 women who have
entered industry since 1914, together
with new technological inventions.
2. The cessation in new building due
to high taxes, high union wage scales
and conflicts within labor unions.
3 The loss in foreign trade due to
high wages and labor union inter
ference.
4. The destruction of buildings by
fire. It is estimated that fires have
thrown a million out of work.
5. Deaths among big business men
with initiative and the inability or
young men to take their places. Au.
tomobile accidents have been an im
portant factor in these deaths.
6. The decline in installment pur
chases. These dropped continually
from 1929 to the end of 1932.
7. Labor union activities which have
forced employers to install more au
tomotive machinery.
8. The income tax payments which
have forced families t 0 give up ser
vants, gardeners, and other so-called
luxuries.
9. The Frazier-Lemke bill which dis
couraged institutions, banks, insur
ance companies, and individuals from
leading money for the purchase of
real estate and the building of homes
-10. Increased real estate and other
taxes which retard industry, initiative
and willingness to take risks.
11. New Securities Act and similar
administrative measures which have
discaurged enterprise and retarded in
dustry. ;
12. Changes in the American diet
and the elimination of 12,000,000
horses which have reduced the con.
sumption of wheat, hay, oats, and cer
tain other farm products.
13. The reduction of farming acre
age through the AAA, all of which re
stricted production temporarily helps
the farmers but increases unemploy
ment."
14. The introduction of a minimum
wage which results m throwing out
of work the less efficient.
15. Attempts on the part of nations
and individuals, alike, to violate na
tural and spiritual law's as expressed
by the multiplication table, the Gold
en Rule and the Ten Commandments.
Government Only Drugging Jobless
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i i have been a constant critic thro
i ughout the depression of the various
popular methods of attacking the un
employment problem. My basic objec
tion to all the methods so far adopt,
ed (NRA. PWA, CWA, and the like)
is that they have not gotten at the
root of the problem. Such plans as
have been tried have been simply
“shots-in-the-arm” and have done
nothing toward curing the disease.
It is easy enough to criticize these
social measures without offering any
constructive suggestions in their
place. Many people have asked me
what I would d 0 if I were in Madame
Perkins' shoes, his subject has oc
cupied a great deal of my time and in
an early article I want to discuss a
simple program for the reduction of
unemployment and improvement in
business which is now two per cent
below a year ago and twenty-two per
cent below normal.
Associated Gas’s Attorney
Witness Before Committee
(Continued from Page One.)
vice, and former Representative Goss
of New Hampshire, a former mem
ber of the military committee.
Ryan'said he believed then and does
now that the military committee was
obtaining information from Speicher.
He testified that Silvermann had
provided money for Speicher on sev
eral occasions
On the floor of the Senate the ad.
ministration’s legislative program
faced a major test during the day.
Up for debate was a proposal to bar
the filing of suits to recover process
ing taxes paid under the AAA with a
compromise offered that would limit
the ban to those who had passed the
taxes on to consumers or producers.
The Smith bill making potatoes a
basic commodity under the agricul
tural adjustment act and levying a
processing tax was reported favorably
to the Senate by the agricultural com
mittee.
President Roosevelt plans to motor
to Annapolis, Md., tonight for a week
end cruise on Chesapeake Bay.
Many Obstacles
To Teacher’ Pay
(Continued from Page One.)-
nex tyear. It is generally agreed that
at least $250,009 would be necessary
to assure a 20 per cent increase for
every teacher, regardless of length of
service or degree of training.
Not that the members of the Coun
cil of State would object to seeing
the teachers get the full 20 per cent
increase jvhich the General Assembly
undoubtedly thought it was granting
them, but for which it just did not
provide enough money. The question
would be as to whether it would feel
justified in dipping into the emer
gency and contingency fund to the
extent of taking half this fund of
$500,000 and using it for one single
object, teachers’ salaries. For other
emergencies might a?»se later on, pro
senting a still more urgent need than
the need to increase teachers’ salar
ies. It is agreed, however, that Gov
ernor Ehringhaus and the members
of the Council of State could not
make a more popular move or one
that would tend to help them in the
coming election than to appropriate
$250,000 from the emergency fund to
the school fund so that every teaen
er could get the 20 per cent minimum
increase, in addition to the increases
for length of service and belter cer
tification, which they believed the
General Assembly had provided for
them.
Governor Ehringhaus had nothing
to say today with regard to the sug
gestion made by Dr. McDonald. But
there were indications that both he
and the other members of the Coun.
cil of State were giving it rather
serious consideration. Dr. McDonald
at the conclusion of his conference
with the governor Thursday, indicat
ed that he had had a very satisfac
tory conference with the governor,
that his suggestion had been given
decided consideration and that he had
definite hope the governor would pre
sent it to the Council of State for its
consideration.
While it is impossible to estimate
exactly how much additional money
is needed to make it possible for the
State School Commission to grant a
minimum salary increase of 20 per
cent to all teachers, beginners as well
as to those entitled to increases for
experience and better certification,
the belief is that $250,000 would be
sufficient. When asked today if he
thought $250,000 would be enough to
grant this horizontal 20 per cent sal
ary increase in all brackets, Leßoy
Martin, executive secretary of the
State School Commission, said:
“We would be willing to undertake
the job of giving every teacher and
all new teachers a blanket increase
of 20 per cent, in addition to the oth
er increases to which they are en
titled under the law due to length of
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service and better certification, if we
could be assured of having $250,000
a year more than we now have. But
this is a mere guess, since it is mani
festly impossible to make an accurate
estimate until all teachers have been
employed and the amount of increases
due them for experience and cer
tification definitely known.”
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