The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-10

NAS AAA0y SOAAaPACeCAy ACNClo agency.
 The nnomentous verdict hinges upon an inter-union Jurisdiction al dispute now before the Labor Board.
 In June, 1897, the C1O Play things and Novelty Workers Un- ion, after an NLRB election, won an exclusive bargaining contract from the Bradley Toy Company of Springfield, Mass. The contract, covering 300 members of this un- ion and 13 pressmen who print toy labels, ran for six months and was renewed.
 Recently negotiations were be- gun for another renewal. But suddenly the AFL Printing Press mems Unioin stepped in with a demand for separate contract for its 13 members. The issue went to the Labor Board-and 1t Is a tough onel
 PRINCIPLES AT STAKE
 On one side the AFL demands official recognition of It's key prin- ciple of craft unionism. If the Board rules against the pressmen, the AFL is sure to scream bloody murder, CIo-bias and what have you.
 On the other side, the CIO points to the once-rerewed con- tract signed as a result of an NLRB-conducted election, to the democratic principle of majority .rule", and above all to the fact that to give the pressmen craft union rights would establish a precedent, under which the AFL could go into the mass production industries already organized on an industrial basis by the CIO.
 This last point Is the heart of the fight, and the Boards ruling will make labor history.
 Should the Board hold for the pressmen, the way would be open for the AFL to demand craft pleblscites In the coal, steel, auto and clothing indus tries-where industrial unions have been dominant for years. This would be body blow to industrial uniOnism--and to the CIO built up on the industrial principle.
 That is why, if the decision goes against 1t, the CIO may throw the NLRB overheard and join the clamor for its scalp. For the Labor Board would thus be- come a greater menace to 1t than the AFL.
 THIRD TERM QUANDARY
 A dozen or more people have talked to Roosevelt in the past month searching for the answer to the nations biggest political question mark: Docs the Presi- dent want a third term?" And all of them have come away with out the answer.
 The list includes some of his closest friends, one or two Cab- met officers, and certain figures high in Democratic ranks. They are men skilled in gauging polit- ical ambitions and hidden mo- tives, but none has emerged with any definite conviction whether the President wants to run for @ third term.
 Two significant results stand out, however. ONE is that he has told most of his callers more or less the same thing. They have com- pared notes and found that the President has sort of set speech on the third term subject.
 The OTHER is that Roosevelt urges the party to look around for new timber.
 Invariably he starts by call- ing the roll of those who might
 be Democratic candidates in I9S0. He discusses quite frankly all of those c0nceivably In the running, from Senators George of Georgia and Byrd of Virginia to Ickes and Hopkins, or as he describes them, "the motley crew of Democrats gathered to. gether under one roof"
 Harry Hopkins he counts out as Q candidate because he Is too i'll. Ickes. he says. couldn't get the nomination. Byrd and George he skins over with scanty mem ton. Cordell Hull he feels Is too old.
 GARNER GETS TT But when the President comes Co Garner he really goes t0 town. "ff Che Democrats are going te bs defeateds" he told ane