The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-22

board has exclusive jurisdiction. Not until final action by that boaId does anyone have the right to SUN init his cause to court, and then there is merely a very limited~ and restricted review I am considering the question of amendments that will confer concurrent jurisdiction upon the federal district courts that will permit the filing of com plaint before the board or before the appropriate district court. If complaint is filed before the board, there shall be the right, at any time before hearings start, to have the case removed and tried in the ap- propriate federal district court. Every person accused of violating the act will be assured an opportun- ity for a fair and impartial trial. The mere existence of such right will go a long way toward insuring fair trials before the board"
 Revision Campaign
 In his campaign for revision of the Wagner Act, Burke has cau- toned that: There should be no relaxation of the statutory pfohi- bition against coercion or intimida- tion by employers in interference with the freedom of employees to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing. But there is equal need for protection of the employee from attempted intimidation from other sources, whether it be from workers, union organizers, or from any other quarter. Every employee should have the right to decide of his own free will and without any coercion, whatever, whether he wants to join a union, and if so what particular union, and whether he wants to continue at his job These are the priceless attributes of freedom, and no democratic gov- ernment, worthy of the name, can countenance their deprivation. Let the act be amended to give that complete protection. Let it de- nounce unfair labor practices on the part of the employees as well as employers. There is no reason why labor organizations should not be as strictly amenable to the law as any other groups of citizens"
 Convention Features
 The program for the Convention has other features of the labor ques- tion scheduled for consideration. The Federal Wage-Hour law will share the spotlight with Senator Burke's address A representative of the wage hour division of the De- partment of Labor is scheduled to address delegates on the act and its administration.
 Aside from the fine program for the Convention sessions, delegates to the meeting have much in store in the field excursions arranged for them by E. O. Slater of the Los An geles Committee.
 On Friday, October 28, there will be trip to the Mojave mining dis trict. with visits to the Golden Queen and Cactus Queen mills and surface plants. Following their re- cent discovery, these properties quickly developed into gold pro- ducers of wide renown.
 On Saturday, October 29, there will be several alternate excursions, including the following:
 Go Underground
 CD A trip to the underground mine of the Riverside Cement Con- pany, where caving methods are employed for mining limestone.
 (2) A visit to the 13-mile tun- nel of the Colorado River aqueduct of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. This 16-foot circular tunnel is concrete-lined bore through the San Jacinto Mountains about 30 miles from Los Angeles. It has been driven from two shafts and three adits, and is