Evening star., 1937-07-27
VOTE BY THURSDAY
IS SEEN IN SENATE
0NWAGE-H0URB|LL
Anti-Lynching Legislation
Backers Hope to At.
tach Rider.
UNION RESPONSIBILITY
MAY BE DEBATE TOPIC
Copeland Fails in Effort to Tack
Lynch Bill on to Train
Limit Measure.

BACKGROUND
Administration seeks to eliminate
child labor and s,DeutShop condi-
tons in industry through bill no,D
pending to pest regulatory control
in fireman Labor Standards Board.
Much OF industry, particularly from
South, fought bill in hearings.
Senate committee thoroughly re-
,orote measure, but House group
has not yet reported.
By the Associated Press
Administration leaders forecast to.
day a Senate vote on the wage anc
hour bill by Thursday despite new at.
tempts to amend it.
Exponents of anti-lynching legisla.
ton said they again would submit tht
Wagner-Van Nuys bill to the Senate
this time as a rider to the labor stand
ards measure.
Senator Copeland Democrat, Of
New York submitted the anti-lynchinf
measure yesterday as an amendment
to the McCarran train limit bill. The
amendment was tabled, 4l34, before
the train bill was passed.
The anti-lynching bill would i'm.
pose penalties on peace officers ane
political subdivisions for failure te
protect prisoners from mobs.
Proposals by Senator Vandenberg
Republican, OF Michigan. to increase
responsibility of labor unions through
amendments to the wage-hour bill also
may prolong debate
Vandenberg drafted the amend
ments originally to make changes ir
the national labor relations act.
Black First Speaker.
the Senate took up the wage-houl
measure late yesterday but deferred
debate until today. Chairman Blacl
Of the Senate Labor Committee. CO.
author Of the bill, was to speak first.
The bill would give to a five-mar
labor standards board power to fl,
minimum wages no higher than Al
cents an hour and a maximum worl
week no shorter than 40 hours fol-
each industry engaged in interstate
commerce.
Goods manufactured in violation oi
the boards wage-hour orders and
those produced by child labor would
be barred from interstate commerce
The age limit for children is Is; for
those in hazardous industries, 49,
On the House side Chairman Nor
ton OF the Labor Committee said she
hoped to report the bill out late this
week
Vandenberg's amendments would
forbid unions to coerce workers into
becoming members and prohibit COM
pulsory union assessments for political
purposes or strikes called without the
approval Of majority Of employees.
They would prevent non -citizens
from serving as union officials and
would permit employers to ask the
National Labor Board for collective
bargaining elections.
Both parties would be required to
sign a written contract, setting forth
the collective bargaining agreement.
Unions guilty Of unfair labor prac-
tees could be forbidden to collect
dues or to serve as bargaining agents
After the anti-lynching bill was
tabled yesterday, several Senators, in
cluding Van Nuys. said they voted to
table Copeland's proposal because they
favor both the anti-lvnch and train
limit bills. They said they feared
consideration sof the anti-lynching
issue IN the form Of rider would
jeopardize both measures.
Van Nuys called it an effort to
lynch both bills"
The Senate Judiciary Committee
recently approved the Wagner-Van
(See WAGE-HOUR, Page A-5.)