The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-03-12

said, the outlines of remedial meas
ures become fairly simple. Such en-
ployers' association conspiracies should
be fatty outlawed"
The committee declared that policies
of industrial management have been
pursued in California (which, in tran
quill times, bore the bitter fruit of
strikes and violence may, when the
nation is engaged in Il great national
defense effort, prove our undoing."
Increased Protection Urged
Committee findings and recommen-
dations were made in a 62-page gen
eral introduction to 10-part report on
investigations made in late 1899 and
early 1910. The subcommittee, COM
posed of Senators Robert Nj. La Fol
lette, Jr., of Wisconsin, and Elbert ID.
Thomas, of Utah, promised to submit
proposals. S for specific legislation
further to guard labor's rights.
''rhe significance of this inquiry"
the report declared, lis that there is
a need for adding to and increasing
the protection of labor's civil rights
through legislative action if we are to
achieve that pervasive degree of col
lective bargaining procedure that is
recognized as essential to an equitable
division of the fruits of industry in a
system of free private industry
1.-The committee found that in i'm
pOrtant sectors of CalifOrnia's indus
try the national labor policy had not
been honored or observed. The results
We're observable in continued insta-
bility, repeated denials of labor's
rights. and Il constant strain on the
maintenance of collective bargaining
procedures elsewhere
Drastic Action Asked
'In part, the causes lay in organized
cOnspracieS of employers associations
to fout the law From an inspection
of the pattern of organization viola
ton and defiance revealed in the Cali
fOrnia inquiry, the outlines of remedial
measures become fairly simple. Such
employer association conspiracies
should be fatty outlawed.
"The California investigation, as
analysed in this report, strongly sug-
gests that the National Labor Re;i-
tiOnS Act has not yet proved effective
in haIting undue interferenceS with
the right of labor to organize and bar
gain collectively, perpetrated by organ
lied employers associations and their
artificially generated citizens commit
tees and third party movements
The committee told the Senate TO be
oil tn hn of ST ~ IA
reasons for demands for economic re-
adjustments in considering current
legislation dealing with the rights of
labor in wartime.
Warns of Defense Plea
1t asserted that the policies of in
dustrial mama agement which had led in
the past to strikes may now be
"cloaked j. 81 in the name of natiOnal
defense" and their attainment may be
sought Through legislation which in
fringes the constitutional liberties of
those of our citizens who work for
wages TO do this, the committee
added, is to pursue Il private vendetta
at the cost of national unity
"The committee trusts that this re-
port will be read in the context of the
national emergency and in the light
of the current discussion concerning
organized labor, national defense and
the permanent outlines of an ideal
national labor policy the report con
tinued.
Evils Pointed Out
"It believes that the report will
identify some of the results which flow
from a policy which denies to work
ingmen a strong voice, through self
organization, in the terms and cOndi-
tiOnS of their work"