Montana labor news., 1933-06-15
Industrial Charter Is Safe;
How the Senators
Voted

employer by the workers is a slave
relation to a master.
Norris agreed that the language
was dangerous in many ways.
Clark replied that Donald r. Rich
berg, labor lawyer, had been present
in the committee room when the
amendment was adopted, and mot
only accepted the amendment but said
he thought it was very beneficial to
the bill" Richberg was the principal
author Of the Norris-L aGuardia Act
which outlawed the yellow-dog con-
tract. Clark's assertion caused deep
establishment.
Wheeler declared it incredible that
Richberg, who will enforce this law,
could yer have approved such a
weakening of the labor charter, but
that, even if Richberg had taken such
a position, he was wrong.
"If the amendment is adopted,
Wheeler told the Senate, "labor gets
nothing under this section of the bill.
As the Senator from Nebraska has
said, the laboring men who belong to
a company union do not dare to say
their souls are their own. They would
not dare to come before any commit
tee of Congress and say that their
conditions were not satisfactory. When
we had the coal strike hearings we
found that situation to exist. 1t was
so in the railroad industry when we
Investigated that. Do not go back to
your constituents and tell them that
you voted to leave the provision in
this bill because you thought you
were voting for the rights and inter-
ests of labor"
On this test of good faith to labor
freedom the senators who voted to
keep the company-union language in
the bill we're: Austin, Bailey, Bank
head, Barbour, Barley, Carey, Clark,
Dickinson, Dieterich, Fess, George,
Goldsborough, Gore, Hale, Harrison,
Hastings, Hebert, Kean, Reyes, King,
Lewis, Logan, Metcalf, Patterson,
Reed, Robinson of Arkansas, Shep-
pard, Steiwer, Stephens, Vandenberg
and White. Paired on that side were
Fletcher, McNary, Dale, Kendrick,
Walcott, Glass, Borah and Townsend.
Senators who voted or paired to
kill the company-urion amendment
were: Adams, Ashurst, Bachman,
Black, Bone, Bratton, Brown, Buckley,
Byrnes, Capper, Connally, Coolidge,
Costigan, Cutting, Dill, Duffy, Erick-
son, Hatfield, Hayden, Johnson, La
Toilette, Lonergan, Long, McAdoo,
McCarran, McGill, Murphy, Nicely,
Norris, Nye, 0verton, Pope, Rey-
nolds, Robinson of Indiana, Russell,
Schall, Shipstead, Smith, Thomas of
Utah, Thompson, Trammell, Tydings,
Van Mugs, Wagner, Walsh, Wheeler,
Bulow, Copeland, Davis, Pittman,
Thomas of Oklahoma, Mrs. Caraway,
Frazier and Mcclellan.
On Clark's later amendment which
would strike out the entire industrial
control plan, including all ~labor-pro-
lection clauses, the vote was 81 to
40. Clark's supporting votes were
those of Austin, Bailey, Barbour,
Black, Byrd, Carey, COnnally, Dickin-
son, Dill, Fess, Goldsborough, Gore,
Hale, Hastings, Hatfield, Hebert,
Kean, Long, McGill, Metcalf, Overton,
Patterson, Reed, Reynolds, Schall,
Smith, Townsend, Tydings, Vanden-
berg and White. Paired on his side
were Herbert, Logan, Walcott, Dale,
Reyes, Glass, Borah. Clark's plea
against suspension of antitrust laws
influenced some of these Democrats
to knife the whole measure, although
Borah's anti-monopoly amendment had
been accepted.