The Omaha guide., 1933-10-21
March Events
BY REV. ALBERT KUHN

10y " III AACdllO easy SdI1lO. OnG OF L11
snags which it hits are the conflicting
ambitions of the leaders of labor on one
side n OF capitol on the other. Labor
leaders Like Green, head f the American
Federation OF Labor, and Lewis, Head
OF the United Mine Workers, want to use
the n. K. A., to become dictators to the
industrial managers Of the country maxi
ing it impossible for the latter to conduct
the details of their business without
daily consultation with and Difference to
a non resident Labor Bureaucracy. ANY
one who has had to deal with local labor
unions and labor bosses knows how I'M
reasonable, arbitrary and 0verbearing
they can be. Once in a while their con-
duct is not much different from that Of
regular racketeers. On the other hand,
where labor cannot bargain with the
employer collectively the individual en-
ployee is absolutely at the mercy of the.
latter who may regard labor as so much
machinery which he is buying as cheap
ly as possible, which means in times in
which there is a surplus of labor, at star
walton wages. The only sensible method
Of insu1 ing fair treatment to everybody
in our present complicated system is the
setting up of boards Of arbitration so
constituted that they can impartial bal
ance the interests of the employers, the
employees and he consuming public.
Such boards our President is trying to
establish and to invest with power. In
this undertaking he ought to have the
backing Of the whole nation.
In Western Pennsylvania violent
strikes have developed among the miners
in which scores of men have been killed.
Many of the mines have had to stand
a regular siege. The government has
been reluctant to show its strong arm in
the matter, for fear that it's action might
be misinterpreted either by capital or by
labor as a one-sided stand, depending up
on what action the federal troops would
feel constrained to take. Henry Ford
also has had some serious strikes on his
hands. On account Of slow business he
had to curtail the hours Of labor at the
plant at Chester, Pa. The men struck
for a five-day week at a $25 minimum.
When Ford retaliated by closing the
plant, the strikers moved on his other
plant at Edgewater, N. j., to induce its
two thousand workers to engage in a
sympathy strike. They boastingly talk
ed of closing every Ford factory in the
country. Methods like that of curse
confirm Ford more than ever in his re-
fusal to allow his plants to become union
lied.
In Cuba President Grau's student
supporters fired upon a crowd of Com
munists, killing scores, while government
troops forced the surrender of 500 Off
GERS who had entrenched themselves in a
prominent hotel at HAVANA in defiance
Of the new government. The position
just been completed by the Southern
Commission on the Study of Lynching,
and the facts discovered will be given to
the public at a nearly date, according to
an announcement by George Fort Mil
ton, editor of the Chattanooga News and
chairman of the Commission.
Trained Investigators representing
the Commission have been on the case
for some time, according to Mr.. Milton,
and have gone as fully as possible into
every angle of the situation. Interesting
revelations are promised relative to the
probable guilt or innocence of the vic
tins lynched, the part played by officers
md courts. and the state of mind of the
of the ew government is still very inse-
cure. So far it has not obtained recog-
milton by the American government.
Many people find fault with the
slaughter of millions Of young pigs by
the government. Yet, when the market
is glutted with hogs and the farmers do
not get half of the cost Of feeding out
Of their shipment, who Of these critics
digs into his pockets and makes up the
deficit? For over twelve years the rest
OF the public have let the farmer sink
deeper and deeper into debt and by buy
ing below his cost have robbed him of the
fruit of his labor, simply because it was
impossible for our farmers to organize
for planned production like industries