The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-01-09
Proposals To Ban
Strikes Condemned
The Board Upholds Lubor's
Right To Quit Work: Urges
Fight On Causes

Albany, N Y. QLNS)-Forthright
opposition to any move to prohibit
strikes is expressed by the State Medi-
alton Board in a preface to its annual
report.
The boards stand is considered of
great significance, in view of New
York states dominant position in in
dustry and business.
New York employers and unions
are showing growing disposition
to settle their differences without re-
sort to strife the report notes, point
ing out that no major labor disputes
have impeded production here under
the national defense program.
Example Set For Nation
Whether the lack of serious dis
putes in industries engaged in such
work is due to a more enlightened
and mature relationship between man
agement and labor, or because en-
ployes in this state are enjoying bet
ter conditions of employment than
exist elsewhere, or because of more
sincere desire to work out existing
differences and disputes in an orderly
fashion, or whether the Board of
Mediation has been successful in it's
constant teaching that disputes are
best settled around the conference
table, or for some other reason, the
startling fact remains that work on
national defense goods is here pro-
ceeding without Interruptions occa-
stoned by labor disputes or Difficult
ties" the report says.
"We sincerely hope that this con-
dition will continue and that labor
relations in New York state can be
held up to the rest of the country as
an example Of the fact that industry
and labor can live and work together
in complete harmony"
The philosophy guiding the state
board in carrying out it's statutory
mandate to reduce the number of
strikes and lockouts and promote in
dustrial peace is set forth in these
words:
Voluntary Action Championed
at (the board) subscribes to the
theory, as do most employers and
unions today, that rational discussion
can bring about an agreement on con-
troversies in most cases. The solu-
tion of the problem of reducing to a
minimum strikes and lockouts lies not
in the direction of rendering the par
ties to an industrial dispute impotent
to take direct action.
"Relief from interruption to the
orderly processes of business is best
accomplished by attacking and remov-
ing causes which are most likely to
result in interruption. Collective
agreements between employers and
unions, Incorporating adequate ad
justment machinery, provide the most
adequate method yet devised for ac-
complishing this purpose and bring
ing about mutually satisfactory and
harmonious industrial relations.
Peaceful Adjustment Stressed
"Since its inception the Board Of
Mediation has assisted i'm the nego-
tiation Of hundreds of labor agree
ments and in every instance it has
lISlSIed lIldl d pIOFlSloll NC lHCOTpOI-
ated for the peaceful adjustment Of
disputes which might subsequently oc-
cur"
The board said it did not consider
it desirable to provide for any other
type Of governmental intervention in
cases where mediation proved inef-
fective.
However," the board added, at
frequently happens that where the
parties do not arrive at a settlement
through mediation they may be in
duced voluntarily to submit disputed
issues to arbitration"
The board reported that the num-
ber Of arbitration cases it handled had
gone up from 237 in 1888 to $50 in
1910. Mediation cases rose from 223
to $50 in the two-year period.