The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-05-03
Unions Must Be Regulated, Says
 Untermyer

NeW ork, May 3|CnleSS OrSaniz- ed labor champions moderate reguIa- tory measures. it's abuses will keep pace with its increasing power. Sam uel Untermyer, attorney for the Lockwood legislative committee de- cJared Monday night in May Day address in Terrace Garden. Included an the form of regulation he had in .mlnd, he said, would be the right to strike.
 There are many labor unions" he asserted, among them the more prosperous, that are under the guid- Ing hand of men of vision and that are free from grave abuses. They would not be affected by regulatory legislation The others must be reg ulated to save them from themselves"
 As a life long friend and champion or labor. MT. Untermyer said he vas entitled to have the wOrkingmen pers, he said, knew how for years he had insisted that the workers were not receiving their just share of the l; wealth they produced and that but for organized labor their lot would be one of misery and virtual serfdom. ''I know, and he knows that know he stated. 'of the fierce uphill struggles of organized labor against the ever-increasing power of orSan- | ized capital aand of what it has done for the workers
 Mir. Untermyer said his conception of labor union regulation. has none
  word regulation as seen from the : point of view of the labor leaders"
 "'It does not even involve enforced i incorporation of the unions he con < tinued, "although if these gentlemen ! understand the limitations that may ! be placed upon incorporation they would see no great harm in that 1 character of regulation But since that conveys to them an unwelcome, | however unjustifiedI fear of restric- ] tfon upon their activities, it is not 1 necessary to conSzder it. "'The form of regulation that have 1 in mind would expressly reserve all ] the present rights of the union to , strike and aT other rights new g. eSFed tG by pubic shs laT poaS taat aaS aG would be Zn the first instance purely administrative and would involve: : CD 2e submission. by each union of it's /constitution and bylaws for / appro1aI to a State Commission and i the 4anting to it of a license, if an 1 unl7eorporated association, if they IGsf1fain nothing that Is contrary to sE%iBlic policy.
 (2) The right of a member of the
 union to review any determination of his union that he believes to be un- q just to him.
 3 The right of an person feeling aggrieved by the action of the union to like review.
 (4) The right to any complainant
 
 , rules, practices and regulations of a union to have such abuses abated, be- ing in this respect somewhat anala- gous to the present authority of the Federal Trade Commission to prevent i unfair business practices among cor : porations engaged in interstate busi- ! ness.
 (5) The privilege too either party { to a controversy before the comm1s- | sion to appeal to the courts from its , decision.
 Such a regulatory body would be given no power to enforce arbitration
 between the union and their employ
 CTS or to intrude into any of the con-
 troversies over wages, hours of labor " or any other matters that the legiti-
 between the employer and the union
 Its Jurisdiction would be confkAed to
 the correction of unfair regulations and practices.
 The only effect of that limited . form of regulation would be to con form the rules and practices of the labor unions that are now discredit- ing the cause to those that already prevail in the unions of more en- frightened mana cement. In that way the outlaw unions will be deprived of their power through their oppressive and indefensiBle unions and thus will | the legitimate unions and thus will the cause of organized labor be great ly strengthened and its enemies dis armed.
 That. in brief, Is my plan for strengthening the cause of the labor : unions and of cOnfounding it's enc mics, whose entire stock-in-trade is
 based upon those abuses whereby they hope % obscure and have al- ready well-n. . succeeded in obscur
 ing the fundamental justice and merits of the principles on which or ganiZed labor is founded"