The union times., 1941-06-21

 her opposed selective service act amendments passed by the Sen- ate last week authorizing the President to seize strike-bound or strike-threatened plants and condemning strikes in defense industries.
 AGAINST AMENDMENT MT. Danaher voted against the amendment conforming strikes be- rause 1t placed the Senate on record hs declaring all strikers or lockouts II industries that impede or delay the national defense effort are contrary to bound public policy and because it kiewed mediation board decisions as inal and binding.
 One of Seven Opposed
 Senator Danaher was one of seven Penators who voted against the plant eizure authorization. This was ap- proved by 67 to 7 ballot MT. Dana Ter subsequently, dictated to "The Hartford Courant' correspondent the following statement of why he op- |osed the plant seizure and strike Condemnation legislation
 
 Senator Danaher's Views
 ''In the first place." he said, it will give the President complete trike-breaking powers and authorize jim to take over plants whenever he ecides that production is threatened. Ie will thus be able with the powers ke has through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the controls yer fiscal and economic phases of our Government, to set up completely egimented national state.
 ''Notice that unlike the wartime powers of President Wilson this bill is not limited to the time of war in which the United States is engaged but may be exercised during the entire length of the emergency declared by the Presi dent himself for as long as he chOOses to continue it.
 s'As this program unfOlds in the months ahead, and it has been achieved in the name of national defense, you will find the employers will be told how much they will be allowed to earn and employees will be told how much they may be paid.
 Recalcitrants will be subject to government controls just as conn plete as anything found in the totalitarian governments. You will be told that your right of free speech will not be impaired and your right to religious free dom will not be denied, but with the exception of such immediate personal constitutional rights, the sO-called American way will yield to the direction and to the controls of the appointees of the President, whether it be MT. Ickes saying you can't run your Automobile or some national per- sonnel director saying when, where, and how you will work.
 May Draft Workers
 "As the author of the plant seizure i'll pointed out in debate" continued fr. Danaher, plants can be operated y men selected under the selective ervice act.
 Moreover, the bill wasn't needed. f the right of a worker to refuse to york is guaranteed under the law, it pillows he is free to strike. If proper
 be endangered during the course of uch strike, either the state or local governments or both may now, with lat this bill, step in to protect the roperty. The President didn't have he bill when he went into the Cali prnia strike.
 NO HEARINGS
 "Again the impetus behind this particular bill, as well as similar bills in the House, comes entirely from Senators and Rep resentatives of states whose people have always been and still are the implacable foes of or- ganized labor. It is a matter of intense regret to me that such a measure could be adopted as a simple amendment on the Senate floor without hearings, without the facts, and without the thorough consideration the prin- ciple involved should have re- ceived. So l voted against it.''