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Profs Debate Labor-Management Probl em
Workers Buck Bill
To Restrict Unions
By ARTHUR H. REEDE
Associate Professor of Economics
Contrary to prevailing notions,
the record of labor strife was
good in World War 11. Whatever
may be said of those who did
strike —and I shall not defend
them —the fact remains that the
amount of time lost as a result of
strikes was consistently very low,
much lower than in World War I.
The lull of the war years has
ended, for over half a million
workers are currently on strike.
Why has this come about, and
does it require action?
Wage rates remain at war-time i
levels, but ‘'take-home" pay in
most mass production plants has I
declined up to 30 per cent because
of the ending of over-time em
ployment. Workers feel this keenly
because prices not only have not
fallen but are still rising. During
the war they gave up the right
to strike and were allowed to ne
gotiate for only limited raises in
pay. Living costs are now about
33 per cent higher than on Jan
uary 1, 1942. Few workers were
granted wage increases during
this period that amounted to
more than half this rise, in liv
ing costs. While production was at
war-time levels, over-time pay
helped to make uu the difference.
Now this is no longer true.
The President thinks that long
and costly strikes would hamper
reconversion and encourage in
flation. Accordingly he asks a
“cooling off” period during which
a fact-finding commission would
study and report on the issues.
(Union spokesmen oppose this
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measure, arguing that strikes
need not be long or costly if em
ployers bargain in good faith. They
believe that they should be as
sured the right to negotiate wage
increases in line with admitted
rises in living costs.
Employers complain that they
cannot grant wage increases
without corresponding adjust
ments in prices. Union spokesmen
disagree, arguing that, with oyer
time and other war conditions
ended, costs should be substantial
ly lower. They challenge employ
ers to prove from their books that
wage increases would necessitate
price increases.
Employers allege that workers
have often struck in violation of
contracts, especially in recent
months. They ask that the right to
strike be restricted by appropriate
safeguards that will bring irre
sponsible union leaders and mem
bers to book. In part unions op
pose the President's bill for fear
that it will be amended to meet
employers’ demands. 'Some un
ion spokesmen admit that union
discipline is not what it should be,
but they contend that measures so
far suggested would not so much
improve union discipline as lead
to breaking up unions.
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Marorie. Reich and Richard Spence
were appointed to head Commis
sion Six —publicity. John Sigler is
new co-chairman of public meet
ings. He serves with CMary Jane
Doemer.
First Semester Club Officers
Ruth Gilmore and Fred Smith
are co-chairmen of the newly-for
med First Semester Club, a per-
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STATE COLLEGE
THE COLLEGIAN
Industry Agreeable
To Cooperation
By CLARENCE E. BULLINGER
Professor of Industrial
Engineering
The present labor-management
situation is an aftermath of -four
years of war restrictions for la
bor and management
Management is willing to pay
high wages. It believes that a re
turn, to the peace-time work week
of 40 hours at current hourly
rates, might permit it to produce
its product and sell it at the pres
ent ceiling prices and make a fair
return on its investment, if the
volume of production is greater
than pre-war.
It is even willing to pay labor
for a postwar working week of 40
hours, the war-pay for a working
week of 48 hours which is the
equivalent of 52 hours at the
current basic hourly rates when
overtime payment is included. If
it does grant this increase, man
agement believes that it should be
allowed to increase its selling
price beyond the present ceiling
prices as set by OPA. Granted
the increase in selling prices it
believes that the volume of pro
duction will be such as not to re
sult in increased profits beyond
that necessary to provide the stim
ulus te stay in business.
Management cannot get along
without labor, nor can labor get
along without management. It,
therefore, believes that labor has
a stake'in the continued operation
of the industry and should of its
own free will take more respon
sibility to develop greater control
of the actions of its membersi
It believes that where there is
clear understanding as to the
rights, responsibilities and au
thorities of both labor and man
agement. that there should be no
interruptions in the normal flow
from day to day activity. This ap
plies particularly to the belief that
an improvement in the coordina
tion of management and labor
would result were labor to insist
that its members live up to its
agreements and discover means for
the clearance or removal of juris
dictional disputes between rival
unions.
Management believes that the
process of collective bargaining
should mean what it implies,
namely, that agreements are the
result of sincere compromise be
tween the viewpoints and judg
ments of labor and management.
It feels that as the labor relation
ship grows older and more exper-
manent merger of Women’s Fresh
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Erla Mae Johnston and William
Shoemaker, vice-chairmen; and
Patricia Woods, secretary-xreas"
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vice-president, and secretary
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ienced, that better understandings
will develop and more areas for
bargaining will appear.
It emphatically believes that
certain areas of industrial life are
the specific and exclusive right of
management to manage in so far as
they are managed in accordance
with the laws of the land, proprie
ty, good common sense and in
many cases with an enlightened
sense of stewardship.
Management also believes that
the present standards of living in
the United States cannot even con
tinue or get better unless capital
flows freely to it and is accorded
a fair return.
It is my personal belief, that as
lab on and management grow to
gether they will realize that after
all, they are the trustees or
stewards of this thing called in
dustry, that trust and belief in
each other will grow to such an
extent that the team of labor and
management will be unbeatable.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1945 -
Spagnolo Joins
Art Department
A new associate professor of the •
department of architecture, Jos
eph E. Spagnolo, arrived at the/
College recently from the Naval/
Ordnance Laboratory in Wash- /
ington, D. C. He had been em-f
ployed there as architectural)
consultant since April 1944.
During this time Spagnolo;
worked on projects involving ,i
depth ' charges and mines. Later
he was technical and design con- .
sultant for a new $ 15,000,000,.re-;:
search plant at White Oaks, Mdi r
Traveling abroad to study firte
arts, Spagnolo received his Bach
elor of Fine Arts degree from the
Royal Academy in Rome ini 1922.
During his four years of study at
the Academy he spent some sum-.,
mers traveling' in Africa and on
the Greek mainland, ■visiting;
remains of ancient Egyptian and
Greek civilizations.
After receiving his B. F. A. de
gree. Spagnolo returned to the
United States where he enrolled
in the University of Pennsylvania
to study architecture and was
graduated in 1934 with a Bache
lor of Architecture degree.
In September 1938, Spagnolo re-'
ceived his M. S. degree in-arch
itectural engineering at the Vir-'
ginia Polytechnic Institute,
Blacksburg, Va., where he was: a
member of the architectural en
gineering department. -V •:
Before this he was employed;
in the Home Owners Loan Cor
poration in Columbus, Ohio as asp;
sistant reconditioning supervisor;;
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