The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-20
As We See 1t
by
THE STAFF

4 ~ A. - ~ - 4 \ n II
COMES NOW The Los angeles
Times with discovery that there's
something worse than labor unions.
Says the Times, it's labOr's political
action.
The Times, somewhat stilted i'm
its own thinking, asks us to imag-
inc what would happen if all the
80 million union members and
families voted together next eIec-
ton.
Our imagination, being what it is,
suggests some shocking things. The
people might actually control their
own government!
And - horrors - some Congress.
men might have to go back to
work.
James I'll. Rand, Jr., who is not
unknown i'm MiddletOwn, originator
of the notorious 'sMohawk Valley
union-busting formula and for years
one of the most hard-bOiled anti-la-
Dor bosses in the nation, received
another lesson this week that fight
ing unions is costly business.
His company, Remington-R n d,
lnc., signed stipulation with the
National Labor Relations Board,
agreeing to make back wage pay
ments of as much as $4,000 each to
rs metal polishers who had been
locked out of its plant in Elmira,
N. Y.
This cleared up the last of a Sc
ries of cases brought against the
company by the Machinists, as an
outcome of the bitter strike waged
at the corporations plants in 1896.
Rand broke the waIkout with his
Mohawk Valley" formula, but lost
in the end when the Supreme Court
several years later ordered him to
reinstate 1000 strikers. Disputes
arose thereafter over some employees
who were not rehired, or who other
wise were Disseminated against, and
these have dragged on in the courts
finally winding up with the settle
ments reached this week.
MISS FLORENCE
PETTY OFFICER
WET AT CHURCH
Must have been a pretty sad &C.
casiOn, according to this headline
in the Concord On. HI. Daily Mon
itOr.
REP. CLARE BOothe Luce is a
fictiOnist of note'as we'll as the Con-
gresswOman from the Fourth Dis
trict. She adroitly combines both
in her IA reasons for passage of
her limited labor draft as a means
of staving off wholesale labor con-
scriptiOn. Among these reasons
are: the prevention of labor hoard
ing, of bottlenecks, and the draft
ing of fathers; the restoration of
mental and moral dignity to de-
ferred and rejected selectees; pre-
ventiOn of bureaucracy, centraliza-
ton of industry; tends to put
money in the treasury, control in
f1atiOn and lower living costs; pre-
vents strikes. To make it complete
she might have added it's also a
good cure for the hOusemaid's knee.
ONE YEAR AGO In THE UN-
ION TIMES: "War Labor Board
Establishes National Yardstick On
Wages Unanimously Decides
Upon The Little Steel Formula;
lodge l249, New Britain Machin-
lists, Wins Wage Increases In Set
Element of Six Months Dispute AT
North and Judd Co..; "S.B.L.I.
Sell First $1,000, 900 Worth OF In,
surance-Workers Buy More Than
6O%"; "Conn. Senators In Wash
ington Promise New Haven Gen.
trail Labor Council Full Support OF
Anti-PoH Tax Measure; Hartford
School Employees, Local $50, Pre-
pare Demands to Submit To School
Board; "CO-Operative League Of
America Calls For RatiOning OF
ALI ShOrtage-Threatened Goods.
Position Similar To That Taken By
Organized Labor"
FROM the Fort Custer mich. }
NesOs:
Cali drivers will discontinue at
once the practice of sounding their
horns while passing a WAC driver.
Members of the WAC will be treat
ed with all courtesy possible and
violations will be severely dealt
with. Organization commanders
will inform all men accordingly"
NEEDED: An statewide organ
lied protest to the attempt to break
down child labor laws, for selfish
interests, under the pretext of aid
ing the war program.