The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-11-16
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT PEACE
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Cne government not parCiclpaClnS III
voting capacity, the President, never
theless offered several broad sugges-
tions.
The key to harmonious relations be-
tween unions and management, he de-
clared, must be genuine collective bar
gaining. He said:
II do not mean giving mere lip SER
vice to that abstract principle. I mean
the willingness on both sides, yes, the
determination, to approach the bar
gaining table with an open mind, with
an appreciation of what is on the other
side of the table-and with firm re-
solve to reach an agreement fairly"
If bargaining produces no results,
the President said there must be a
willingness on both sides to use i'm
partial machinery to reach decisions
based on facts and in that way to
prevent strikes and lockouts.
He also emphasized the desirability
of peaceful negotiation of contracts
which should be faithfully carried out.
AS final point, the President urg-
ed that some substitute be found for
jurisdictional strikes.
Turning to the industry delegates,
the President warned:
Mo, fon hnc
upon labor relations as a stepchild of
its business, to be disregarded until
the controversy has reached a point
where real collective bargaining be-
comes very difficult-if not almost
impossible. 1t happens all too fre-
quently that in the actual process of
collective bargaining delaying tactics
are practiced with the result that
there is no real bargaining. There can
be no justification for such tactics at
the present time or in the future"
The President left Immediately af-
ter his address which closed the morn
ing session. In the afternoon, the con-
ference resumed with brief addresses
by Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach
and Secretary of Commerce Wallace
Then Justice Walter P. Stacy, chair
man of the conference, called upon
President Green to lead off for the
delegates.
Mr.. Green emphasized at once that
the conference should confine its delib-
erations to the seven points in the
agenda seeking methods by which in
dustrial strife can be reduced to a
He warned against trying
to inject current wage disputes or
legislation into the pro-
ceedings. If that is done, he declared
it "would make failure of the confer
ence foregone conclusion"
This marked sharp difference of
policy with the CIO whose President,
Philip Murray, made it clear that his
organization plans to drag in it's diff
culties with employers in current wage
Mr.. Green insisted that such mat
ters must be settled by collective bar
gaining on an industrial or plant basis
and not be injected into the national
conference. He implied that if the CIO
succeeded in it's effort to force con-
sideration of pending wage disputes,
employer delegates might counter with
a move for consideration of anti-labor
legislation. The entire conference
might break down under such circum-
stances, the AFL leader indicated.
In his address, Mr. Green said:
acceptance of collective bargaining
as the most democratic and the most
efficient tool in industrial relations
must be. genuine and wholehearted.
Perfunctory acceptance of collective
bargaining is worse than no accept
ance. The goal of collective bargain
ing is an agreement. The embodiment
of that agreement is contract. When
and workers enter into
a contract they assume obligations
which are mutually binding upon them.
An operating collective bargaining
agreement is backed by the under
standing, accord and acceptance Of
every person covered by it's terms and
by their sacred honor. 1t means that
The management has an inviolate OBJ
legation to carry out the contract and
to adhere to both the letter and the
spirit of said contract. 1t means that
not only the representatives of work.
ers but every worker who is a party to
the contract has a personal RESPONSE
bility in abiding by it's terms.
"Labor's basic right to organize and
bargain collectively and the full ac-
ceptance of that right by the employ
ers stands side by side with the right
Of employers to manage their enter
prise and direct its operation without
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