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demand certifcation when legitimate
labor organization has just started,
thereby thwarting the efforts of or
ganized labor to lawfully unionize en-
ployes.
"The same section requires that
representatives be certified for as long
a term as is provided in a contract.
Thus an employer can make contract
with a company union for ten years,
and certification must be had for that
same period. This, too, will have the
effect of thwarting legitimate labor or
ganization.
"Section Z (d) accords the employer
the right of appeal in representation
cases. Since the employer has the
right Of appeal in complaint cases he
is accorded full protection. The amend.
ment will only serve to harass and
annoy legitimate labor organizations
which have been certified, by subject
ceedings.
"Section 8 (c) is limitation on the
right of the Board to order reinstate-
ment Of employees when employers
have engaged in unfair labor practices.
1t also permits the court to exercise
Independent discretion over the orders
of the Board in respect to reinstate-
ments and to reverse such orders if in
the Independent opinion of the court
it differs with the views of the Board
on questions of fact
"Section 8 (f) requires labor unions
to engage their own lawyers in the
prosecution Of charges and complaints
against employers unless a Deputy
Attorney General is assigned to pros
ecute the case. This will entail con-
siderable difficulties and expense for
labor unions which are the victims of
unfair labor practices of employers.
Nullifies State Anti-Injunction Law
"Section 8 (d) virtually nullifies the
Pennsylvania State Norris-La Guardia
Act passed in 1887 limiting the jur-
isdiction of courts to issue injunctions
in labor disputes. The amendment
takes away from labor the protection
of this Act in those disputes which
come under the Labor Relations Act.
This is disastrous provision in that
it will bring back government by in
junction. and labor unions will be sub
jected to numerous court injunctions,
thus reviving the evil which the 1897
Act was passed to overcome.
Destroys Labor Relations Law
Benefits
"Section 8 (e) destroys completely
all benefits of the State Labor Rela-
tions Act. BY this provision petitions
or charges which relate to acts occur
ing more than six weeks prior to the
filing of petition or charge must be
automatically dismissed. Labor unions
frequently cannot discover unfair la
Dor practices on the part of employ
ers within SO short a period of six
weeks. This provision is designed to
destroy any possible benefit which la
Dor might derive from any other pro-
vision in the Act.
Victimizes Workers
"The foregoing Section is supple
mented with Section 10 (D which de-
clares a forfeiture of all rights Of en-
ployes who have been found to have
participated in alleged unfair labor
practices. Thus an employer can per-
petrate outrages upon employees, anC
the employees will be denied all rights
whatsoever if they have in any minol
manner committed an employe unfail
labor practice.
"There are other Objectionable fea.
lures to the amendments, but the fore.
going clearly demonstrate the serious
ness of the Objectionable features OF
these amendments which not only de.
prive the workers of the rights under
the original labor relations act but re-
vive the evil of the labor injunction
and impose new and outrageous bur
dens and obligations upon the workers
of Pennsylvania. 1t is inconceivable
that the great State of Pennsylvania
should subscribe to a labor philosophy
which harks back to the days OF
slavery"