Evening star., 1948-03-14
I1Ulnjunetion Hearing
Ends with Government
Charge Of Anarchy
BY The Assoeiu.ed Press


INDIANAPOLIS, March 13.-The
Injunction case against the Inter-
national Typographical Union
ended today with the Government
accusing it of anarchy" The union
came back with a charge of bad
faith
Federal Judge Luther M. Swygert
postponed his ruling. Sometime
after March % he will decide
whether to grant a Taft-Hartley
Act Injunction against the AFL
union.
Government lawyers, summing up
their case, asked for an order pre-
venting the ITU from putting into
effect any refusal-to- bargain or
closed shop policies in the news
paper industry.
Printers Past Record Cited.
Winthrop Johns speaking for the
general counsel of the National
Labor Relations Board, told the
judge:
THE ITU in the past has been
pointed to with pride as a model,
but now they are in anarchy against
the law of the United States"
Gerhard Van Arkel. speaking for
the ITU, said there is nothing for
the judge to enjoin because no
violations Of law have been shown.
He said the real point of this
case" is that the publishers are the
ones who have refused to bargain
over wages and hours, and Ito come
in here and challenge this union on
refusing to bargain places the Gov
ernment In the worst position of
bad faith"
Misrepresentation Charged.
He said MIR. Jones utterly and
completely misrepresented" the tes-
timony of ITU President Woodruff
Randolph.
He said the union shop" pro-
vision in the Hartley Act was
put there through "the tawdriest OF
motives" and he hopes the ITU will
never" choose to accept union shop
conditions through that process.
David P. Finding, NLRB asso-
ciate general counsel, described the
kind of temporary injunction the
Government wants.
It would be directed only at the
international unions policy. Gov.
eminent lawyers have said that Il
this policy were changed by court
order, and any of the unions locals
then continued policies which the
Government considers illegal, sepa.
rate action could be taken agains
those locals.
Would Curb ITU Policies.
Mr.. Findings proposal would re
lstrain the ITU from Inducing it.
local unions to observe any polio!
which:
/. Requires a refusal to bargain
in good faith, including a refusal t.
sign contracts of a definite term
in accordance with the custom O
the newspaper industry.
2. States or implies that employ
ers shall make union membership ,
lCOIlOlGlOu Ol hiring.
The proposed order would restrain
the ITU from encouraging thos
policies by any methods whatever
including strikes, slowdowns, con
ditions of employment" posted OF
bulletin boards, and contracts which
can be Cancelled on 60 days notice
/ Judge Swygert asked Mr.. Findlinl
if, he thinks these 60-day clause
are in themselves illegal. MI
Finding said no, only illegal whel
, the union insists on it to furthe
Illegal purposes. ,'.~
i Finding Replies to Charge.
Mr.. Van Arkel said in his closin,
argument: II am literally shocke'
by Mr.. Findings suggestion tina
this court should deny to thi
union the right to have Coda
clauses"
Mr.. Finding later said Mr.. Va
Arkel's "chagrin" was "just un
founded" because the Government
doesn't say that the 60-day provi
s sion is bad in itself but only whe
it occurs in a context of bad-fait
4 bargaining.
= Mr.. Johns, who is chief of tn
3 3 NLRB injunction division, said tn
0 central theme" of the case is ths
? the union adopted a "no-contract
policy whose primary objective We
to maintain closed shop condition
In which only union printers woul
work in composing rooms.
Union Fear Called Fancy"
Discrimination against nonunio
E men in hiring is banned by the Law
: But the union shop" in whic
r non-union people can be hired, bu
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