The biggest of recent strikes has been in the steel industry. Mr. Tom Girdler, chairman of Republic Steel, sty the CiL.O, leaders.
eis unwilling to sign agreement although he Is ready to agree with the C: LO. verbally. The real Issue say the more reasonable of the President's opponents is whether signature, once given by both sides fx will be equally valid for both sides.
They point to the fact that since the C-LO. organizers signed an agreement with General Motors Corporation early' this year some 200 strikes have broken out. The C.LO. leaders cannot live up to their contract nor an the government penalize them for breaking it. The corporations with whom, they sign can be brought into the courts but the CLO. is. legally non-existent, an intangible body which cannot be sued.
'The Wagner Act, sometimes called the Magna Carlo of Labour, is com~ pletely lacking in the fundamental quality of feudalism, namely that every right has its' corresponding duty. Its a law designed with the sole purpose of regulating and con~ trolling employers in their relations with Labour, conferring no powers on the Government for regulating controlling employees and their organizations in relations with the management, It has become on act for promoting the organization of the CLO, with Governmental aid.
was originally designed to be sri act conferring and safeguarding the it of workers to organize if they wished free from employer interference, When a few senators timidly suggested that coercion from any source might be better phrasing they were brushed aside.
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