Montana labor news., 1934-12-27
Green Demands
3O-Hour Week
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employment. We shall appeal to Con-
gress to supply the remedy through the
enactment of a 30-hour work-week bill.
Second Am Industrial Dis
putes Act patterned after the
Wagner Disputes Act, o~utlawing
company unions and providing for
the continuation of the National
Labor Relations Board.
Experience during the past year has
demonstrated the necessity for the
enactment of such a measure. Com
pany unions, financed, fostered and
maintained by corporations, are con-
trary to a sound public policy. They
serve as the medium through which
corporations exercise complete control
over the economic lives of the work
ers. There can be no economic free
dom in plants where company unions
exist. In fighting to secure the en-
actment Of legislation outlawing COM
pany unions, labor is fighting to make
workers economically free and to de-
mocratize industry. Collective bar
gaining is a farce when it is carried
on between a corporation management
and its own company union. There
is nothing which so seriously threat
ems the peace and tranquility OF in
dustrial communities as the forced ac-
ceptance of company unions.
every large employer of labor
ordered by the National Labor Rela-
tons Board, set up by action OF the
last session Of Congress, to permit
elections to be held for the purpose OF
collective bargaining, has refused to CO.
operate and challenged the decision Of
the board. That means in every in
a where the National Labor Re
lations Board ordered an election for
collective bargaining purposes, its de-
cision was flouted and denied. Labor
seeks to c a remedy for this stu
alton through the enactment of a prac-
teal. workable industrial disputes act.
"Third-The extension of the
National Recovery Act. Labor will
propose the extension of the Va
tionaI Recovery Act, retaining
therein Section IA providing for
collective bargaining, the abolition
of child labor, the elimination of
unfair trade practices, and the
equal, adequate representation of
labor with industry upon code au-
thorities established by industrial
codes of fair practice. Labor will
also seek to secure equal represen-
tation with industry in the admin
~istration of the National Recov-
cry Act. Labor will opPose any
REIMBURSEMENT of governmental
supervision and control yer the
development, application and adj
m~inistration of industrial codes of
fair practice.
Fourth - Unemployment insur-
ance and old-age pension legisla-
ton. Labor will be prepared to
offer such amendments as may
seem necessary to social justice
legislation formulated and ap-
proved by the Presidents Com
mittee on Economic Security.
Fifth - The restoration of the
wage reduction by January !,
which was imposed upon federal
employees by action of the Sew
enty-second Session of Congress.
1t is the purpose and intention of
the American Federation of Labor
to make a drive for prompt, inn
mediate action upon this measure.
The economic, social and indus
trial facts call for an immediate
restoration of the pay taken from
federal employees.
while these legislative proposals
will be considered as the major part of
labor's federal legislative program,
there are other measures Of great i'm
portance which will be supported by
labor and its friends. 1t is the inten-
ton and purpose of the American
Federation of Labor to utilize its or
gained instrumentalities in mobliiz-
ing the more than thirty million wage
earners with their friends in support
of this legislative program. The re-
plies to questionnaires sent by the
American Federation of Labor to mem
bers of Congress justify the conclusion
that these federal legislative meas
ures proposed and supported by labor
will be enacted into law before the
adjournment Of the Seventy-fourth
Session OF Congress, which meets on
January 3, 1885"