The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-10-20
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~ Where with our
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~0 we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

| sometimes recklesSly.
What's all this talk about too many
strikes?
Look it in the face and see.
In the first place, the newspapers
are exaggerating strikes. There
haven't been over two really sizeable
strikes. The rest have been small
affairs.
But labor is lectured and told not
to strike-it "rocks the boat"
Whose boat does it rock? Think
that over.
Now it is true, as President Green
has said, that strikes should be the
last resort. Try other things first.
Try conciliation, mediation-talk it
over, if you can get the chance.
But just why everybody, including
the New York Times, should jump all
over labor because it resents being
walked on and kicked around and
cheated, isn't quite as clear as some
other things.
A great many strikes have been
out of resentment against violations
of code provisions by employers. Just
why are employers free to go on CHS
cling, cheating and violating codes?
One simple reason is that, until in
dustries are licensed, there is nothing
anybody can do about such violations
that is really effective.
There can be no punishment until
a case has been made out in a federal
district court, and that is not such an
easy thing to do.
Cheating has been on grand
scale. Codes have been violated with
freedom and impunity.
Workers stand that for while and
then they decide that they have had
enough. They strike and then they
are told they have done wrong.
Some way must be found to stop
the first wrong-THE CHEATING
BY BOSSES.
Labor supports NRA and it is the
most powerful force there is in sup
port of NRA. But that doesn't
change the fact that there are sec
tions of the country where workers
have already lost their faith in NRA
because of the wholesale violations of
code provisions by employers.
1t would be nice to discover that
the newspapers of the nation had
banded together to denounce these
violations, and nice to read that the
| National Association of Manufactur
ers and the United States Chamber
of Commerce were going to enter into
campaign to stop violations.
NRA is the hope of America to-
day. 1t can remain hope only by
remaining ON THE LEVEL and by
seeing to it that codes are obeyed by
bosses.
Almost everyone agrees, IN theory
that codes should be obeyed, that code
wages should be the minimum, and all
that sort of thing. But, performance
| is something else, as thousands will
agree.
Complaints to NRA get exactly
nowhere at present. That may be
changed and possibly will be changed
But that's how it is today. You car
complain and get in return nice
form letter.
Of course, if you know your way
around and file a complaint with the
| National Labor Board you will get
action and you'll get it quickly.
Senator Wagner isn't standing foI
monkey business But up to this hour
his machinery isn't extensive enough
to grab all offenders by the neck and
shake them into common sense.
Striking, on the part of the unor-
ganized and the newly organized, is
mighty serious business. Too often
it leads to quick defeat
But why pile on labor's head the
blame for condition that is the ere
tion of greed in the ranks of bosses
who don't yet know that New Deal
is on the boards Let's keep the rec
ord straight.