The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-04-03

New YORK, the Stock EXch
Demands made by the union in,
clude request for an increase in
wages of 25 per cent and union Sc
curity.
Green, pointing out that the
union has offered to arbitrate,
said:
"The employers say: No, you
must surrender to u.s. | do not
believe the people of the United
States will support the owners and
operators of the Stock Exchange
in this position"
The unions immediate dispute is
with A. nj. Kidder & Co., a brok-
erage house.
Exchange officials contend that
they cannot compel a member firm
to come to an agreement with the
union. President NJ David Keefe
of the local explained that the or
ganization served its 30-day notice
of cancellation of it's contract,
which is in effect a strike notice,
on the exchange rather than the
kNdividual firm with which it is in
4 tispute because operations of the
are conducted on
"chain-store" basis. Also, the
unions contracts provide that the
exchange shall assist in maintain
ing harmony between the local and
the affiliated brokers.
Wagner Act Held Success
Green raped legislation de-
signed to shackle organized labor,
stating that Congress- continual
attacks on labor had created chaos
and industrial strife and interfered
with production.
John M. Houston, member of the
National Labor Relations Board,
asserted that the Wagner Act, the
Norris-LaGuardia Act and the
Clayton Act "did not create new
rights for employees" All of them,
he said, were "passed to set up
procedural safeguards for rights
which for more than a hundred
years have been considered basic
and constitutional"
He said that the Wagner Act
"is nothing more than the recog-
milton of the age-old principle that
a legal right in one person implies
a duty on the part of others to re-
fraif from trespassing on that
right" and added:
1"The Wagner Act was not in
tended to eliminate all evils from
the field of industrial relations; its
,scope and purpose was limited
lNne. And that it has been a sue
Jess is dramatically demonstrated
rby the decline in strikes and lock-
outs caused by the denial of the
right to self-organization. In 1887,
about 60 per cent of the strikers in
the United States were involved in
organizational strikes; in the latest
period for which we have informa-
ton, the first months of 1916,
the figure had declined to 8 per
cent. In 1887, man-days idle due
to organizational strikes accounted
for 76 per cent of all strike idle
ness; of the AZ largest and most
important postwar strikes studied
by the Department of Labor, only
one-twentieth of one per cent of
the idleness was caused by organi-
rational issues"
Urges Fostering of Cooperation
Expressing his opposition to
compulsion in the field of labor
relations, he said: "The purpose of
government should be to strength
en- the relationship between man.
agement and labor. 1t should fos-
ter cooperation and not rely on Of
fetal decree. And all actions of
that government should be shaped |
in the direction of stimulating such |
agreement"
Other convention speakers in
cluded Secretary-Treasurer |. M.
Ornburn of the AFL Union Label |
Trades Department; President Will
liam l.. McFetridge of the Build
\ng Service Employees Interna-
Iional Union, and Vice President |
Earl J. Mcmahon of the Illinois
State Federation of Labor.
President Paul r. Hutchings |
and Secretary-Treasurer j. How
ard Hicks were reelected.