'The present issue, say the Presi-trifles, i democracy versus' coercion. Ts justice to be adminis fered in the Add of industrial rel tlonships in accordance with Amer principles or arbitrarily in. accordance with the practice in dicta worship countries?" The President talks repeatedly of his ing the democratic tradition in the world but he has some very strange Hdeas of what democracy" is. His views and those of the CLO. are very similar, Says Dorothy Thompson, "By hook or by crook, through the democratic process or by coercion one gels 0 Majority. One then uses the power which that majority gives to destroy the minority and make Impossible for that—minority ever again to become a majority. One administers all policies with this purpose in mind, has the law Interpreted by one's own partie zans from the Supreme Court down to the Labour Relations Board and thus establishes oneself in perpetuity. This is mot democracy; it is the modern technique of usurpation."
'One way of meeting the criticism of Mr, Tom Girdler.and others that the Lewis unions are irresponsible would be to pass new legislation amending the Wagner Act, per Insisting' that the unions should be "incorporated." There is little chance of any legislation along these lines being passed this session. The President and the C.LO. and AF.L. could ght It off successfully. State iegisiafon will probably be in advance of Federal Yegislation, on this matter.
When a riot is in a man's back~ yard he is more interested in it than hig neighbour across the way, A Tow just passed in Michigan for example forbids strikers to block. public highways. or draw a cordon across factory entrances. Tt also forbids those who are ngt parties to the dispute to join the picket lines. Hf-a similar law had existed in Pennsylvania it would have been {legal for the 40,000 Cambria County miners to march to Johnstown and prevent non-strikers from returning te work.
Mrs. Edith Brockman, of St. Louis Missouri, a professional picket, found to have'earned $0440 since 1929, would not be allowed to carry on her business in Michigan. The right to strike, however, is not abridged in any way. The object of the law is! to safeguard the equally important right to work, Amendments Proposed Senator Vandenberg has proposed several amendments to the Wagner Act on very much the same. lines. Employers as well as union leaders could demand an election among the workers to determine who should represent the men, His amendments also provided that once a group of leaders or unions had obtained majority they could not be assumed in perpetuity to represent a majority of the workers,
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