Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1947 — Page 11

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Jurisdiction Would Be to Interpret Meaning of Contracts Already Adopted

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NEW YORK, March 31.—After almost a year of publie discussion, the idea of a special federal court systems to handle labor disputes is getting

congressional consideration.

Two Republican senators, Homer Ferguson of Michigan and Alexander Smith of New Jersey, have offered. a bill to create such a. court.

It is described as being on a level but actually would have some additional powers. .The system proposed by Sena-

with existing district court system

They could issue injunctions notwithstanding the Norris-LaGuardia

tors Ferguson and Smith is quite act,

different than the one which District Court Judge John C. Knox It has been publicized since, at every oppor tunity, in speeches and articles. Respected Jurist Judge ‘Knox—one of the older

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much support and alsoa great deal of bitter apposition when he advocated a nation-wide system of courts that would deal exclusively

‘with labor disputes.

Much of the opposition centered around his proposal that these courts should have power to write contracts, when direct negotiations between employers and unions broke down. The Ferguson-Smith bill confines the courts’ role to applying federal law and to interpreting the meaning of contracts already adopted. This would leave the settlement of bargaining argu-| ments untouched. But once a contract was signed, if any dispute arose as to what it meant—or if either party failed to live up to its obligations—then the. labor court would hear the evi. dence, decide the issues and enforge its decision. * Three-Member Bench The Ferguson - Smith = proposal differs from Judge Knox's in another respect, too. It would establish, in each of 11 districts, a three-member bench. Two would be lawyers, the third would be & layman expert in labor matters. Judge Knox would have had 12 judges, all lawyers, who would have held court in Washington, New York, Chicago and San Francisco. The court proposal as it has reached the senate actually in-| corporates the ideas of a number of experts in labor practice and law. Judge Knox is father of the special labor court idea. But when he presented his ideas recently before the New York State Bar association, several prominent labor lawyers raised objections. Raise Several Objections Unions had criticized the plan because they said it would be, in fact, compulsory arbitration of collective bargaining arguments. But Donald Richberg, who is a

leading supporter of compulsory

arbitration, eriticized the same feature from another viewpoint. He feared that the court's calendar would be .clogged by every petty disagreement that arose in the course of contract negotiations. This, he felt, would result in unimportant points being magnified beyond their merits. And when really vital disagreements arose, of the sort that cause major strikes, Mr. Richberg doubted that the court would prove useful. Sees Hostility ~ “Such a permanent tribunal almost inevitably would incur the hostility of one party, ifits decisions were usually satisfactory to the other, and be charged with deciding cases on the basis of the economic and social predilections of the judges instead of on the basis of established principles of economic justice,” he says. : “A labor court, by -a succession of decisions, would probably become offensive to large numbers of both business managers and labor leaders and he subjected to political ‘attacks that would destroy it" “This objection of Mr. Richberg’s

‘Hes "against any court having a

permanent panel of judges, inof ,volunteer or temporary members selected for each case. It is not met in the Ferguson-Smith bill. Power to Enforce The extent and character of the opposition to some of Judge Knox's proposals convinced labor observers that if his plan had been introduced in its original. form it could not have been adopted by congress. But ever before it was known that Senators Ferguson and Smith were planning their bill, many observers felt that a court that would interpret law and contracts—but would not take part in the bargaining process—might evolve out of the discussions, Judge Knox proposed that the court have power to enforce its decisions by injunction, by order, by receivership or by any otfier standard legal process. Use of Methods

The bill now offered would permit use of these normal inethods. It tlso provides specifically that a union official who disobeyed the court's order eould be barred.from serving as an officer or bargaining agent of his union, A company official, for the same offense, could

They could review and reverse the NLRB's findings of fact, as well as of law. They could ‘hear all appeals in their fleld, and would be the final court in labor matters except for

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LABOR COURT SPONSORS — Senators Homer Ferguson (left) of Michigan and Alexander H. Smith of New Jersey look over legislation they introudced to establish foders lebor rels bios

Labor—

{week plus an appeal to the nation to increases antagonism between the operators and the United Mine Workers. Agreement between them now seems more remote. Mr. Lewis leaves no doubt that he will use all the emotional as well

as factual arguments at his command to force the operators into | acceptance of the federal “mine-| safety code” —| to which the operators object on the ground that many of its re-| quirements are unworkable an d unnecessariy| bo strict. df The main Lewis attack now, however, is not! on the operators but on Secretary

Mr, Perkins of the Interior J. A. Krug, whom he” singles out as responsible for non-enforcement of the federal code in the Centralia mine.

Mr. Krug's assistants say that. charge will be answered fully in official statements. One statement, it is reported, will point out that! 57 major and minor violations were found in the Centralia mine in No-| vember, that since then 13 viola- | tions have been “cured,” and that| the only way to eliminate all the hazardous conditions immediately would be to close down this 40-year-old operation.

Claim Progress Made The federal code was one of the union requirements in the KrugLewis agreement of last May. Work of perfecting it delayed its effective

date to August. Since then, according to the coal

Krug, coal-mine fatalities have been | 1 reduced from an average of 93 a month during the proceding four years to 72—up to the time of the, Centralia disaster, The toll of lives there was the largest in any mine disaster in this country since 1928, but has been exceeded 20 times since records were started in 1830. Worst of all in

loss of 361 miners in December, 1907, at Mohogah, W. Va. The Centralia deaths threaten to break a steady decline in the coalmine fatality rate. That decline has been continued for four years, and almost without break since 1914. A new all-time low was recorded by the U. 8. bureau of mines for 1946. Last year the fatality rate was 164 per million tons of coal produced, while in 1914 # was 44 The 1946 rate, the bureau says, was the lowest of any year in its statistics dating from 1874. ‘Roof Falls Chief Hazard _ Nevertheless 974 men were killed in coal mines last year, to 55 per cent of the 1046 fatal accidents were charged to “roof falls” or “coal falls,” the miner's greatest hazard, Underground mining is regarded as probably the most hagardous of all occupations—and particularly coal mining. Coal deposits are frequently “gassy,” and coal dust itself is explosive. Some industry experts declare it will never be possible to make this work altogether safe. In contract conferences with the operators a year ago Mr. Lewis conceded there had been improvement —the number jof disabling injuries in coal miding for each million hours of work had fallen from 71 in 1939 to 64.4 in 1944, but it re« mained far aboxe the 18.4 of general manufacturing and the 27.7 of con-

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Centralia Disaster Widens Miner-Operator Split

Lewis Redoubles Efforts to Compel Acceptance of Federal Safety Code

‘By FRED W. PERKINS Seripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, March 31.—Death of 111 men in the Centralia, Ill, mine disaster, has brought declaration by John L. Lewis of a memorial

“stop this slaughter.” The disaster

Miners' Greeting Is 'Be Careful’

BLUEFIEELD, WwW. Va, March 31. — Miners in this rich coal section know the hazards of their work and .continually remind each other

about it. Down in the mines they don't say “hello” or “good

morning” when they meet each other. The standard greeting is: “Be carefull”

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Gets Long-Distance Kiss MOSCOW, March 31 (U. P.)—

ance of Tschaikowsky's “Nutcracker” ballet. : Mr. Marshall and Harold Stassen, an avowed candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, sat together in a box. They were

Mrs. Walter B. Smith, Gen. Mark W. Clark, Ben Cohen and a dozen other Americans.

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be’ banned from serving as & company official. In three repects the courts proposed by Senators Ferguson and Smith would have powers now denied to the federal district court:

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14c in February Average Worker Earns $46.79 a Week

WASHINGTON, March 31 (U. P.). —The labor department reported today the average worker in manufacturing industries earned $46.79 a week during February. This is only 74 cents below the wartime peak. The department’s bureau of labor statistics said that increased hourly earnings have. almost offset the loss of wartime overtime. It said the average factory worker earned $1.16 an hour during February. Average weekly wages for soft coal miners stayed up around $70 to lead wage scales in non-manu-facturing industries. Anthracite miners averaged $62.58. Meat Industry Rise. Largest The largest rise.in average weekly wages for non-durable manufacturing was in slaughtering and meat packing. The bureau said that since December wages in these industries have increased $5.65 a week to send average weekly earnings up to $57.38. The meat packing industry granted its workers a 12-cent hourly wage increase in December just in time to avert an industrywide strike.

Wages Drop BLS said weekly wages for telephone workers dropped $1.21 from November to February while the

_|average work week declined 48 min-

utes for the same period. The telephone workers have

6% scheduled a nationwide strike for

April 7 in support of their demands improved

‘s working conditions. Their demands were formulated in November.

Phone Dispute Stays Up in Air

Negotiations between Indiana Bell

. | telephone Co. and telephone unions * remained status quo today as cur_|rent working” contracts expired.

The Traffic Workers union, larg-

. |est of three independent unions in-

volved in local negotiations, agreed

to extend the present contract through April 6, the company said. Two other unions covering plant workers and clerical] help gave verbal assurances, the company said, that they “would not authorize any illegal strike or work stoppage pending settlement of present

4 | negotiations.”

The national strike deadline set

‘|by the Federation of Telephone

Unions is April 7. In Indiana, however, a newly en-

‘lacted law. prohibits strikes in pub{lic utilities and requires employees .|in such utilities to submit first to **| conciliation and if that fails to arbi- + | tration.

U.S, Statement

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pared with a year a Sa L ar ast Expenses .. $28, 819, Bis 148 $50,033, Hy 10 Receipts Surprus Balance.

4, 870 [ 259.185.335.159 276, 22 071,081 Gold Reserve. 20,462,097,111 20,256,910,501 xDeficit.

Factory Pay Drops

«|absence of “outside agitators.’

Phone Union's Growth Steady As Independent

Has 250,000 Members; ist Strong and Militant

By EDWIN A. LAHEY Times Special Writer ‘WASHINGTON, March 31—A[M

periodic labor crisis in the telephone industry has become a-fea-ture of life in America.

ing) is based on the assumption that our daily existence would become difficult if silence overtook. that remarkable little instrument which permits any bum with a nickel to invade the privacy of the home at any hour of the day or night. The telephone -tension has a number of unique and interesting aspects, one of them being. the

Then, in compliance with the panies 12 years ago severed their official connection with the unions where it still existed. They then grew steadily as independent organizations. Now they are a mighty and militant trade union. Twenty years ago a discussion of their problems meant staying downtown at night and having coffee and sandwiches with the personnel director in a room provided by the company. Today the geniality of company unionism is gone, the parties bring their | own coffee and sandwiches, and | crisis tremors run through the de- | partment of labor when these for- | mer friends talk business. |

The National Federation of Tele- | phone Workers, which was formed

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of America. The affiliated unions] in the N. F. T. W. are now in the| process of adopting the constitution of the new national union.. It will formally come into being not later than June 10. Takes in All Workers The union takes in all non-super-visory workers in the telephone industry, engineers, draftsmen, linesmen, operators, clerks, research workers, or factory workers. It now represents about thre-fourth of all the workers in the industry.

Between 65 and 70 per cent of the members are women, and they are

Both the A. F. of L. and the] C. I. O. would like to take in the] telephone workers,’ but the union appears jealous of its independence.) An article in the constitution of the new national organization says that afliliation with any other labor organization “shall require the affirmative majority vote of the membership of the union.” Right now the telephone union leaders are trying for a $12 a week wage increase for all classifications. But are running into stiff resistance and a strike is possible o nApril 7 which would put the young union through its severest test.

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