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result was that the Post and Times.
Herald did not print their early edi.
tions Sunday night and came ou
with skeleton editions yesterday
morning. The Star, News anc
Times-Herald made no effort t.
print yesterday afternoon, bu
broadcast news reports periodically
The War Labor Board stepped
into the case at noon. sending tele.
grams to union officials and mem.
bers of the Washington Publishers
Association calling them to a meet.
ing at pm. yesterday to seel
some grounds for a settlement
The board also directed the
union to return to work "immedi-
ately," saying that the tie-up was
"unwarranted and unjustifed" anc
violated labors no-strike policy.
Meeting Set Tomorrow.
At the same time the board sent
kilograms to national officers of the
1TU In Indianapolis calling them te
a meeting here at 2 pm. to-
morrow when it is proposed tc
seek the reason for several strikes
which the board said had been car
ried on with no apparent dis
avowal' by union chiefs.
When the 4 o'clock meeting ended
the union scale committee had
pledged an attempt to persuade the
men to return to work at once.
Mr.. Manbeck failed to appear at
the afternoon hearing and the board
adjourned it. specifying that the
scale committee return with him at
$50 pm.
The union president came to the
night meeting and denied that the
organization was on strike. He said
he had not received the boards tele-
graphic summons to attend the aft
ernoon session, although board Off
cials asserted that the Western
Union reported the telegram had
been delivered but refused.
Says Board Is Not Naive.
Public Member Wayne L. Morse
advised Mr. Manbeck that the board
had ruled that the ITU is engaging
in work stoppage contrary to the
no-strike policy of the board" He
added that he did not want men,
bers of the local to think the board
$50 naive" that it accepted Mr.. Man.
beck's statement that the telegram
had not been received.
Your local is doing irreparable
damage to the great history of the
ITU," Mr.. Morse continued. The
National Labor Relations Board
would be derelict in its duty If it let
you get by with 1t.
THE no-strike policy is pretty
sacred thing. 1t doesn't make any
difference If unions want to hide
behind technical objections. If your
union, and the steel workers, the
mine workers, the auto workers, all
took that attitude, then we would be
entering an era in the war when
unions would have to resort to use
of force to get their demands"
Insistent Stoppage End.
Mr.. Morse said the board would
not let this happen, but would for
bid the publishers to negotiate with
the ITU until the tie-up was ended.
This is regular board procedure.
Labor Member Van A. Bittner, a
CIO representative, then urged Mr.
Manbeck to change his stand.
"If Hitler cannot lick the United
States Government" he said, then
no group of men, union or en-
ployers. are going to lick the United
States Government. God pity this
country If any group could.
And if there is one thing that
labor is interested in in this coun-
try it is the observance of contracts.
If the publishers came in here on
your complaint that they would not
agree to an arbitrator in accord
ance with the terms of that contract,
as we have done in innumerable
cases, this board itself would ap-
point an arbitrator to settle those
disputes.
Collective Bargaining Involved.
so there is something more
deeply involved in this, as I see it,
than the War Labor Board, and that
is the entire field of collective bar
gaining, which will have to exist in
this country long after the WLB is
gone and forgotten, long after the
war is won.
Il say this to you-and I don't
think you can disagree with me-
in peacetime you would have had
no case. Forget the war. Forget
about the National War Labor Board
entirely. If you signed a contract
that provided for arbitration in
peacetime you certainly would have
had to comply if you wanted to
live. and I know this union wants
to live and has lived. And in peace
time this union has complied with
the arbitration provision in it's con-
tracts over a long, long period of
years.
you will need this after the war
Is over blame sight worse than
you need it now with the WLB sit
ting here to act as a final arbitrator
In this dispute.
Issue Goes Deep.
$50 this thing goes pretty deep
with labor. I am not talking for
the employers. I am talking for
labor, organized labor, in this coun-