The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-06
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of injunctions and harassment by
the National Labor Relations
Board, the Int'l Typographical
Union-AFL continued battling this
week for the fullest possible pro
lection against the claws Of the
Taft-Hartley Act.
Woodruff Randolph, ITU presi-
dent, personally took up the cud-
gels for the union in the second
lap of hearings held here by an
NLRB trial examiner on the Am
erican Newspaper Publishers Assn
charges against the union for viO-
lating the Taft Hartley law.
Randolph contended that every
step the union has taken so far to
safeguard long-established stan
dards in no way conflicted with
the law. He revealed also that the
"no-contract" policy which the
union pursued prior to recent is
suance of an injunction by fed
eral court in indianapolis has been
accepted peacefully by major part
of the industry.
AS evidence of that, he cited the
fact that the union had made 1872
wage settlements under the new
policy-424 with newspapers and
368 with commercial printing
firms.
During the hearings, the trial
examiner, Arthur Left, ordered an
investigation of the internationaPs
activities with respect to a tentative
agreement which the TITUS New
York local entered into with Man
haitian publishers. The .ITU refused
to sanction the agreement, contend
ing it violated some of the unions
laws, and the local then invited
Randolph to enter into the negotia-
tions personally to work out an
acceptable contract.
NLRB attorneys pounced upon
this move and induced the exam
iner to order a probe to determine
whether the TITUS intervention in
the New York case constituted a
type of control over locals which
violated the Taft Hartley Act.
Randolph assailed this interfer-
ence as playing into the hands of
the publishers and blocking fair
agreement.
Board attorneys not only are de-
sirous of preventing fair collec-
tive bargaining but want actually
to dictate the terms proposed by
the union," he charged.
Earlier, in a speech at typo
graphical conference in Troy, N.
Y, Randolph predicted an eventual
overhauling of the TIL Act by
Congress.
"When congressman get their
minds on work instead of politics,
We'll be able to have the Taft
Hartley law changed" he said.
Nothing can be done by this Con-
gress but when election rolls around
and the next Congress convenes, it
will be found that sufficient dam
age has been done to industrial
relations"
Randolph and other top officers
of the ITU duringsthe week also
put out a statement denouncing
Chicago newspaper publishers who,
in new negotiations with the union,
insisted on contract provisions
even more shackling than those
called by the indianapolis federal
court injunction.
This, the officers said, proved
the Chicago publishers are follow
ing the "union-wrecking party line
of the American Newspaper Pub
fishers Assn" Some of the pub
lisher's proposals, the statement
asserted, would turn the clock back
to the clark ages" in unionman-
agement relations.
"No local union need ever agree
to the -wrecking proposals of
the Chicago publishers" the state
ment added. "The ITU will never
any agreement for any
length of time containing such pro-
visions. If any publishers, any
where, think the Qndianapolis) in
junction or any injunction will get .
them such provisions let them pro-
ceed to try out their luck"