The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, August 03, 1922, Image 8
COURT OF REASON;
NOT OF FORCE
STATEMENT ISSUED BY CHAIRMAN
HOOPER OF THE RAILROAD
LABOR BOARD.
The Transportation Act, under
which the Railroad Labor Board
functions, makes the enforcement of
the board's decisions largely dependent
on public sentiment and imposes
upon the board the duty of publishing
information relative to the "respective
privileges, rights and duties
of carriers and employes."
.In order that the general public,
the railway managements and the
shop craft employes may understand
thf attitude of the board toward the
strike and may have a correct conception
of the board's powers and
duties in the premises, the following
statement is made public.
The law confers upon the board no
powers of arbitration, mediation and
conciliation, by virtue of which it
can intervene between the carriers
and the striking employes and, by
a give and take process, effect a compromise
of any differences that may
exist.
As a matter of fact, the board
hears, considers and decides disputes
much in the same manner that a
court does, and endeavors to reach
and render judgments based upon
the law and the evidence. A carrier
and its employees, in conference,
may compromise their differences,
but, having failing to agree, the Labor
Board can only adjudicate, but
not compromise.
Kaving once decided a controversy,
the board's jurisdiction is at an end,
unless, upon a proper petition, the
case is re-opened and re-heard.
There seems to be a misapprehension
in some quarters to the effect
thai; the board may settle the strike
by initiating some voluntary modification
of its decisions complained of.
Everybody concerned should understand
that it would be grossly improper
for the board to pursue such
a course and that it has no intention
of so doing.
The paramount purpose of the labor
article of the Transportation Act
was to prevent interruptions of traffic
arising from labor disturbances.
The; underlying principle is that it
is bettei for the immediate parties
and for the people at large that controversies
between the carriers and
their employes should be settled in
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the court of reason rather than the
court of force. It is believed that
an impartial tribunal, composed of j
I representatives of the three carriers;
j of this industrial trianble, will at- (
[tain justice far more often than wiii!
threats, intimidation, mobs, riots. J
bombs, torches, murder and all the,
forces of violence incident to a strike. I
tvio cVinn rmftc Viavp been fairlv I
heard before the Labor Board. They
have appealed from the sober con-j
cervative judgment of this board to
the strike, with all its inevitable, un-1
; American subversion of law and orde; j
For the Labor Board to yield toj
' measures of this kind would be an j
outrage upon public decency and
I would hasten the enthronement of
! anarchy in this country,
i Let it be understood, however, that
the Railroad Labor Board is always
open to any class of railway employes
who approach it in conformity
to the law for the presentation of
any grievance. The board welcomed
the announcement policy of the Maintenance
of Way employes to proceed
within the limits of the law. Their
course points the only feasible way
for the Shop Crafts. Their conduct
will meet with the approval of the
public and with the responsive gratitude
of railway managements.
Upon one question, the striking
employes should not be deceived.
Their leader has said that the strik
! ers are no longer employes of the
railways, and they have thus automatically
abandoned all the rights
they possess under their agreements
and under the decisions of this board,
including their seniority. This is
not the board's action. It is their
own action.
Many carriers are giving their
former employes the opportunity to
re-enter the service within a limited
time. It must be understood now
that men who remained in the service
and those who are now entering it
will have rights of seniority that this
board could not ignore. No better
advice could be given to the men who
are out than that they return to the
service immediately. They have misjudged
the situation that confronted
them, but it is not too late to escape
many of the evil results.
It is to be hoped that the leader!
ship of these organizations will per
ceive the hopelessness of any effort
to intimidate the American - public
and will find a way to lead the men
back into the adoption of peaceful
methods, before some regrettable
catastrophe has occurred that will
detract from the unquestioned
strength and usefulness of the organmhum
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Class In Nursing Sept 1.
A class of six student nurses will
begin September 1 at the Kelley Sanitarium.
Applicants must have two
years high school training and be of
good moral character. Apply at once
either in person or by letter to Dr.
E. T. Kelley, Kingstree, S. C. 7-6-tf.
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izations involved, if it does not destroy
them outright.
This is an individual utterance, but
is expresses, in substance, the sentiments
of a large majority of the
members of the Railroad Labor Board.
IS UNITED STATES TO
FACE LABOR SHORTAGE?
Optimism in Department of Labor
Shows Unemployment
Decreasing.
(Capital News Service.)
Washington, July 25.?According
to figures of the Department of Labor,
the United States may shortly
face a labor shortage, its unemployment
problem completely solved.
Director General Jones of the Employment
Service, declares the "country
is steadily but surely forging it
way toward a period of industrial
prosperity in which it is possible that
the labor supply will not equal the
demand." Optimism, he believes,
pervades every industry in every part
of the country.
Economists of the nation's capital
sound a note of caution to those to
whom any optimistc statement is taken
at its face value rather than for
its real meaning. They point out
that a labor shortage does not necessarily
mean that every man in the
country has a job, but that there are
jobs enough if every man without
a job could get to it. No country,
at any time in history, has ever succeeded
in effecting such perfect distribution
of labor that all jobs were
always filled without their oeigg any
jobs or men left over. Thus at the
present time there are states with
too many farm hands and states with
crying need for farm hands. There
are industries with a forceful demand
for skilled laborers which can
not be found and trades with skilled
laborers who can not find work. It
is fundamental and country-wide conditions
which the Department of La
bor considers, and |in summarizing
the decrease in unemployment and
the coming labor shortage in certain
lines, it shows only a national aspect
of grave questions. Local conditions
may contradict national ones in certain
places without prejudice to the
accuracy of the statistics as a whole.
With practically every industry in
the country taking on more men, and
with- Wall Street and the banking
interests registering optimism, it
not difficult to read into predictions
of labor shortage a comforting assurance
of coming solid and pre-war
normal prosperity. Such, at least, is
the mature judgment of impartial
government experts. \
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Watch for Red Spider.
With the coming of hot dry weather
cotton is likely to be attacked by
red spider, a small reddish spinning
mite appearing on the under side of
the cotton leaves and causing the
leaves to turn red on the upper surface.
The pest may be controlled as
suggested below by the Entomology
Division.
Keep a close watch on the cotton
when dry weather sets in so that
you will notice the first signs. Carefully
burn plants showing the sign.
When large areas are infested, use
one of the following sprays:
1. Potassium sulfide at the rate
of three pounds to one hundred gallons
of water.
2. Lime-sulfur solution at the rate
of one gallon to one hundred gallons
of water.
On large areas apply sprays with
barrel spray pump, being careful to
hit the underside of the leaves.
i/estroy an poaeweeas ana vioieus
in or near the fields, as these plants
are the red spider's favorite winter
house plants.
Boys, Born Sanger
Three small boys under twelve
years of age were jealous of another
boy. They tied him to a tree in
the woods, built a fire around him
and would have burned him to death
had not pxen heard his cries, put out
the fire and saved his life.
Boys are savages by nature. In
their chilhood they go through all
the various mental phases, just as
in the embryonic period they go
through all the physical phases of
animal life. Fathers and mothers
should know that. Children are bom
little savages, not little angels, girls |
included.?Brisbane.
Rub-My-Tism for Rheumatism.
We have money to lend bona-fide
farmers on good farm property.
Rate of interest 5 1-2 per cent. See
me before our allottment from Federal
Land Bank is taken up. We
lend anywhere in Williamsburg county.
W. H. WELCH, Sec-Treas.
Kingstree National Farm Loan Association,
Kingstree, S. C. 7-27-2t.
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