Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1949 — Page 21

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Your Laundry and Dry Cleaning Service

will Be Handled-as Alway s—Without Undue Delay

Here are the FACTS:

The undersigned Indianapolis Cleaners’ and Launderers' Club and 3 affiliated A.F.L. Unions Pledge to the public of Indianapolis their unstinted :

% cleaning service.

energy and reaffirm their devotion to provide continued laundry and

The seven-year contract recently evfered into between these Companies and Unions was set up to insure industrial peace and continuous service.

This objective. is being accomplished.

Disregard the statements and conduct of self-seeking "Johnnies-come-lately" who seek to promote their selfish interests at your expense C.1.O. raiding tactics will not stop {laundry and drycleaning service in Indian-

apolis.

Indiana's two top-ranking radio commentators have commended highly this plan for industrial peace and uninterrupted service.

As early as 1945, Mr. Gilbert Forbes, of Station

WFBM, said:=-

With contracts and contract negotiations collapsing in major industries, threatening new setbacks in reconversion -—and a labor-management: conference staggering and struggling to produce something resembling dispute-settling machinery, a courageous and far-sighted group of laundry and cleaning companies and representatives of the Laundry Workers’ International, A.F. of L., the International Association of Cleaning and Dye House Workers, and A.F. of L. affliate, and Laundry Drivers, AF. of L. Teamsters, Joint Council No. 13, met in St. Louis recently and produced an

agreement which should be the model for those who shun

industrial peace as if it were poison ivy.

Exhibiting patience and understanding in consideration of the problems of each, these company and union officials, took a progressive step and—without fanfare: For this reason, we believe both deserve public mention of the fact, since the results show what intelligent bargaining and planning for the future can accomplish.

Aside from the usual contractural agreements covering collective bargaining, rates of pay hours, and conditions of employment, this agreement projects both employer and employee, a unique distinction if€ontrast to some of the lop-sided “affairs” now breaking down. The Laundry Workers’ and Drivers’ union convinced company officials that an increase in pay—at a reasonable rate—would attract superior personnel and produce better workmanship, to which company agreed.

The unions, enabling the companies to plan for the future, agreed to a no-strike, no stoppage, no slow-down, no interruption article, an agreement, by the way, which will run from 1945 to 1951. The uhions grant the companies the right to hire, transfer, or relieve employes from active

duty, because of lack of work, or other legitimate causes, and the right to suspend, discipline, or discharge employes for proper cause——consistant with contract provisions,

A permanent commission was set up, whose powers and duties cover complaints and grievances which might arise, to be made up of.‘three persons representing company, union: and the clergy. Both companies and unions have equal access to the commission in any future controversy. The contract provides that the two parties shall bear, equally, all expenses of the commission, whose decisions are binding. Several provisions are open to review and negotiation every two years upon written notice by either, but—in no sense—will affect remaining provisions covered by the six-year period of peaceful, sensible, confidence building relationships set forth,

The companies and unions declared it to be their intention to ‘establish, preserve and maintain-for six years—industrial peace and harmony, continuity of operation, and economic stability of the companies involved.” With labormanagement relations hanging precariously in thin air, this beacon of light produced by the laundry and cleaning companies of the St. Louis area. the AF. of L. Laundry Workers and Drivers—may show the way to many of their truculent contemporaries, bent more on destroying each other, than in progressive leadership in industry and labor.

This is indeed a strange wotrld in which we live. Deny a man something and he will fight to get it, Give it to him unsolicited and he may shy from it. Here in Indianapolis recently the owners of many laundries and leading dry cleaning establishments sought a solution to two problems; how to end the constant threat of labor trouble and how to end it once and for all.

This plan has worked vaceessinlly and effectually

in St. Louis ever since.

On Monday. May 23. Station WISH, said:-

hey) spent a great deal of {ime considering the matter hey were tired of trying to prevent their employes from organizing and of having their plants threatened with/ strikes,

hey chose a very workable pldh .. . one which has

been used in 8t, Louis for years with wonderful success.

It guarantees to the employes the benefits of a strong stable union . . . and to the operators the benefits of knowing that they will be able to operate continuously , . . which means money to both management and labor,

As soon as the plan was announced it was set upon from some quarters and denounced. Oddly enough, the very ones who were denouncing it loudest “are the ones who speak for outfits which make capital out of labor strife, Did -they recognize in’ this laundry settlement a threat to ‘heir own plans? Did they realize that here was a proven workable plan of labor management relations that would bring an end to the costly and bloody labor strife which they feed upon?

There is nothing new ahout the plan , . . except that it is new for Indianapolis, New because it takes the top arbitration board out from under the shumbs of any local powers who might like to manipulate it for their own benefit. That arbitration board is above reproach . , Father Brown, Jesuit, and head of the 8t. Louis University Law 8chool, is top man on the board .. . as he has been for five years in 8t, Louis. Labor is represented by a Mr. Patrick and the employers by a A. Aahner, a man of many years of service for top industrial outfits. These men cannot be reached and cannot be manhandled by any Indiana power,

1949, Mr. Frank Edwards,

Their record of handling labor-management disputes in Louis is excellent . . , their record of fairness and is a shining mark for others to shoot at. . “wntion things because today there is stimulated unrest in some the companies here which joined this move to bring peace to the troubled laundry and dry cleaning business in Indianapolis. One laundry is faced with a picket line of a rival union . . . others may have this same trouble.

The plan has been in opefation In St. Louis for more than four years. I made & special trip over there last week to see how it was working out. My investigation indicated that both labor and management were well pleased with it , a8 they certainly should be. Of this plan the St, Louis (3lobe Democrat says , . . One of the most intelligent moves in a generally turgid labor-management plature was the six-year contract signed by the 42 Bt. Louis laundry groups and their union workers. This is a simple procedure, involving confidence on both sides and s& mutual concep tion of responsibilities, It rips from employer-employs relations the danger of punitive work stoppage and permits both sides freedom from crippling and expensive strikes; This sort of contract should be commended to industry and business across the nation, 8t. Louis Globe Democrat. The 8t. Louis Star-Times also commended the program as a long step forward in management-labor relations . . . a sane and workable solution to their mutual differences. The Star-Times commended the industry and the workers for their wisdom in securing the services of Father Brown as top man on the committee, of

This plan, worked out as the St. Louis newspapers reported, It can work equally as well right here. Labor would do well to ascertain the source of the sanctimonious moans that are arising.

This plan WILL WORK in Indianapolis, too.

The living proof that labor and management CAN co-operate is that ALL PLANTS ARE OPERATING AND ALL TRUCKS ARE ROLLING, BRINGING OUR SERVICE TO YOU

(aundry Workers Internafional Union, A. F. L

Ts Infernafional Associafion of Cleaning and Dye House Workers, A. F. L

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