The union times., 1948-07-03
As We See It
 by THE STAFF

There was boy, a very strange enchanted boy. They say he wand cred very far, very far, over land and sea.
 Poor kid was lost.
 New Haven Teachers Union No. 933, deserves full credit for the ac- ton of the Board of Education in dropping the plan whereby teachers would have received increases in salary only if they took courses or did outside community work. AL though one of the New Haven pa pers incorrectly gave credit to the Teachers League for opposing the plan the record shows that it was the Union which, first, last, and alone, opposed it.
 Incidentally, the resignation of the president. of the Hartford Teachers League to become presi- dent of the Hartford Teachers Un- ion, shows which way the wind is blowing these days.
 Both CONGRESS UNCERTAIN IF IT SHOULD RETURN-head- line in New York paper.
 If it does go back, it probably won't stop until it reaches the 18th century.
 DICTIONARY FOR PECLER
 GOVERNMENT INTERFER- ENCE: Wagner act, price control, excess profits taxes, anti-lynch laws.
 TRUE CRAFTSMANSHIP: Where the government guarantees profits through federal tax rebates.
 COMMUNISTIC: Anything that might lower profits.
 INITIATIVE: Voluntary unpaid overtime.
 UNREALISTIC: Anything that can't be paid for out of the work ers' hides.
 We are great admirers of those full-page, four-cOlOr refrigerator ads in the national magazines. We like to look at all that nice food stacked on the shelves.
 A NASTY hatchet job on the US. labor movement was under taken by the Republican party in a recent pamphlet entitled Before And After. Theme of the pamphlet is that before Taft-Hartley, workers were enslaved. Following it, they found the road to freedom.
 Among other things, the pam- phlet implies that before I'll the workers had the closed and union shop showed down their throats whether they liked it or not. I'll emancipated them from this kind of union tyranny" the pamphlet says.
 Fact is, workers dislike this kind of tyranny so much that recent figures released by the NLRB show that in 6,OOO elections on the union shop, workers voted in favor of it in 98%o of the elections.
 All of which means that Before And After, plus T-H, were strictly designed to slip workers 'mickey'' but it isn't working.
 
 As a P.S. to the above item. we might note that among its achieve ments as ''friend of labor'' the Republican pamphlet pats the COP on the back for the ''Norris-La- Cuardia anti-injunction act, pro- tecting unions and workers from the discriminatory use of iniunc- tions in industrial disputes
 The bright lads who put out the stuff for the COP should have re. called that I'll just about put the Norris-LaCuardia act out of busi. ness by restoring the injunction to its former strikebreaking status-as witness the recent actions against the miners.
 There is a soldier, according to the NetO Orleans La.) Times Picayune, who was treated at the hospital ''fOr decorations of the military police"
 Queens of the Rose Festival. said the Portland (Ore.) Journal, Twill be honor guests at services in White Temple Baptist Church, 5 where the minister twill preach on The Rose of Sharon.' The child ren's choir will sin.''