The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-04-24
Along The Potomac
To Washington
By ]. Glenn BeaIl

cernlng matters OF interest to the
Sixth Congressional District.
Under The Dome
| took up with the Federal Works
Agency an application of the State
Superintendent of Schools for
building for use as a science labor
atory at Frostburg Teachers College.
This proposed building is to be used
for the expansion of physical facili-
ties much needed by the school.
The Labor Bill
The House last week passed the
Acknowledgements Relations Act of
l947, referred to in Congressional de-
bates both as the Hartley Bill and as
Labor's New Bill of Rights. The
measure is now before the Senate
where it will be changed by amend
ments.
will be glad to mail to any of you
copies of the Bill, the Report and the
Debates.
Since this is such important Iegis-
lation and since it may affect so
many persons in my district, be-
lieve it wise to enumerate some of
the provisions which affect the
working man.
1. The right to join with fellow
workers to select as their bargain
ing agent the union that they want,
not the union that is forced upon
them.
2. The right to get a job and earn a
living without joining any union.
3. The right to require the union
that is his bargaining agent to rep
resent him without discriminating
against him in any way or for any
reason, even if he is not a member of
the union
4. The right to vote by secret bal
lot in fair and free election on
whether his employer and a union
can make him join the union to keep
his job.
5. The right with his fellow en-
ployees to make demands of their
own and to bargain about them
through the leaders of their own
local union without dictation by ma
tional and international officers and
without regard to the demands of
other employees upon other employ
ers.
6. The right to keep on working
and getting his pay in spite of SYM
pathy strikes, jurisdictional disputes,
illegal boycotts and other disputes
that do not involve him and his
union or his employer.
7, The right to know what he is
striking about before he is called out
on strike, and to vote by secret bal
lot in free and fair election on
whether to strike or not after he
has been told what his employer has
offered him.
8. The right to express his opinion
concerning union policies, union Of
ffcers and candidates for union office,
and to make and file charges against
his employer, the union or union
officer, without suffering any penalty
or discrimination.
g., The right to vote by secret bal
lot, without fear, in free and fair
elections on any matter of union
policy-how much dues he shall pay,
what assessments the union can
make him pay, what the union can
spend the money for.
10. The right to vote by secret bal
lot, without fear, in a free and fair
election for his own choice of union
officers.
II. The right to know how much
money his union has, how much it
pays it's officers, and how much of the
unions money the officers use for
their expenses.
II. The right to refuse to pay the
union for any kind of insurance that
he does not want.
IS. The right to stay a member of
union, without being suspended or
expelled except for ID not paying
dues, (2) disclosing confidential in
formation of the union, (3) violating
the uuion's contract, (4) being a
Communist or fellow-traveler, (5)
being convicted of a felony, (6) en-
gaging in disreputable conduct that
reflects on the union
IA. The right to be free of threats
to his family for doing things in con-
nection with union matters that an
employer or a union doesn't like
Is. The right to settle his own
grievances with his employer.
Is. The right, without the fear of
Ireprisal, to support any candidate for