Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-29
Employers Rights Upheld

THE United States Supreme Court has ruled without
/ dissent that an employer may express his views on
labor problems labor policies and IN labor conro-
verscs without mourning the wrath of the National
Labor Relations Board the penalties of the Wagner
Act
A Insofar as employers are concerned the decision
instaes the First Amendment the federal Constitution
that amendment Included in the BIN Of Rights, which
guarantees the right free speech TO every citizen and
which the labor relations board sought, by arbitrary
findings TO repca-insofar employers are concerned
or course the labor board finding that under
review in the Supreme Court made by the old labor
relations board in the days when It's philosophy was
invariably left wing" when its partisanship toward
radical labor groups and It's bias against industry were
mlitantly displayed, when, indeed some of its members
and much Of staff known members of Communist
front organizations.
THE board as now constituted would certainly not issue
the sane kind of revolutionary ukases the old
board issued
But unfair decisions made by the old board remained
on the books with the and effect of law after the
old board itself had gone.
II is therefore one Of these mpositions which has
now been judIcially removed And contend
that reaction has in, inasmuch the decision
storing a constitutional right to employers has been
handed wn-UNANIMOUSLY-by the New Deals
Supreme Court.
The court, and especially Justice Frank Murphy,
who the decision deserves public thanks and
mendauon Tor rendering just ana clarifying judgment
IN DOING justice to employers, the court has been
l careful to do injury to labor
II has said with emphasis that the law does not
oountenance coercion of labor by employers in matters
OF union organization and collective bargaining
1t has said however, that coercion MUST BE
PROVED by acts and facts and not be merely ALLEGED
or INFERRED because of a utterance
An utterance considered in its relation to other deeds
may be link in chain of evidence but employers
longer to be convicted of coercion the basis solely
of statement unsupported by tangible facts of coercion
"The board" said the Supreme Court, has a right
to look at what the company has SAID well as what
1t has DONE"
But the court also said:
THE sanctions of the act imposed NOT IN
PUNISHMENT OF THE EMPLOYERS but FOR THE
PROTECTION OF THE EMPLOYEES.
1.-THE employer in this case is as free to
take any side it may choose this controversial issue.
PART from its restitution of the Bill of Rights to its
n proper standing this decision is important for
other
The National Labor Relations Boards invalidated
GREER is censured having rested heavily upon findings
yhe adequacy Of which regard doubtful and
taipg based heavily upon findings which are not free
from ambiguity and doubt
This is as powerful argument could be
posed for thorough revision of the labor act by Con-
gress to prevent just such occurrences.
Furthermore the case proves again the absolute
necessity for enactment of the Waer-Logan bill which
will permit free citizens appeal the for
dress against ANY oppressive, unjust lawless
bureaucratic orders and DEGREES.
A Reasonable REQUEST