Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-03-04

OF course, it could be that they are fearful
that il the minimum wage is raised and more
people are covered, the wages you have been
able to establish by collective bargaining will
be more secure. You know shrewd business
men are able to think ahead few months or
years. That's usually why they are successful
in business.
You never saw so much drum beating, dust
raising, and stomping around in your life as
we now witnessing in the effort to save
Taft-Hartley. AS member of the House Com
mittee on Education and Labor get talked to
and receive letters and kilograms, all telling
me that it is only the labor leader who wants
to repeal TIL. Many corporation president has
solemnly informed me that his employees are
not only for TIL but are beseging his office
every day begging him to inform me that it
should be made even stronger. Did you real
ize that the last election didn't mean thing;
that you were only kidding?
Well, somehow or other, can't get it out
of my head that you meant what you said on
Election Day. If the Wall Street Journal had
been right in talking of mandate" when
they thought the election was the other way
around, am forced to the conclusion that
mandate" was actually given even though
the election went contrary to their predictions.
It's really humorous sight to see and hear
business lobbyist demand that / show him
here TIL Is slave labor law" and then have
him outshout me when l start to answer his
demand. let him yell on for a while about
how the workers are held in chains and thrall-
dom by noisy, despotic labor leaders" Then,
when he stops to breathe, ! tell him that
for twelve years I was one of those terrible
labor leaders and that l had to campaign like
the dickens among you folks to get elected
each year as labor leader also tell him how
you elected me first to the State Legislature,
then to City Council, and now to Congress and
II his premise Is correct, you must have been
kicking me upstairs to get rid of me. (Nice
kicking If you can get it). The poor guy then
mumbles something about me being the sex
ception case and that he was talking about
a couple of other guys
You gotta give EN- credit They still spring
back from the prone position. Read the papers.
They're back at the same tactics they used
prior to the election. Their only trouble is that
they themselves are convinced that if they
make 1t big enough and tell it often enough it
has to be. Well, if they want to suffer another
sickening disillusion, it's their own stomach
l am on the Taft-Hartley repeal subcom-
mittee. We have presented to the full COM
mittee the two package" repeal. This means
repeating TIL and -enacting the Wagner Act
IN one bill and amending the Wagner Act in
separate bill. However, the Administration is
recommending repeal with amendments all in
one bill. This has been agreed to by most of
the Unions l feel that the two package" is
the better procedure but cannot say yet how
1t will be treated by the whole committee. 1t
is probable that some pro- o-labor members will
accept the administration bill as long as the
Unions agree to it. 1t is more matter of pro-
cedure than end result