THV 1VMIG IGAN DAILY _____ !M AN DAILY Is The Wagner Act One-Sided? Noted Economics Teacher Replies - -.I, I1 ' .Aa ?4. .+w nr Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of 6tudent Publications. Published every morning except Monday during the University year and Summ r Session. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. All rights of republication of all other matters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class mail matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY. National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADIsON AVE. NEW YORK, N. Y. CIICAsO BOSTON- LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1938-39 Board of Managing Editor . . . Editorial Director. . City Editor . Associate Editor Associate Editor. . Associate Editor . . Associate Editor , Associate Editor, Associate Editor Book Editor . Women's Editor . . Sports Editor . Editors . Robert D. Mitchell . . Albert P. Mayio Horace W. 01lrmore * Robert I. Fitzhenry S. R. Kleiman Robert Perlman . . . Earl Gilman * . William Elvin Joseph F'reedman . . Joseph Gies Dorothea Staebler . . Bud Benjamin Business Department Business Manager . Philip W. Buchen Credit Manager ... Leonard P. Segelman Advertising Manager . . . William L. Newnan Women's Business Manager . Helen Jean Dean Women's Service Manager. . Marian A. Baxter NIGHT EDITOR: MALCOLM E. LONG The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of the Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Back Out Back Taxes .. . O N FEBRUARY 9, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill entitled "The Public Salary Tax Act of 1939." This bill, which is now in the Senate, would amend the Revenue Act of 1938, making all public employes, Federal, State, county and municipal subject to the income-tax laws of the Federal government. This bill, which was recommended by the President, is a result of a decision by the Supreme Court last May 23 in the Port of New York Authority Case. In that decision, the court de- clared that certain public salarie and incomes are not exempt from the Federal income-tax laws.This decision leaves the way open for the government to tax such public employes under the existing statutes. Not only can the govern- ment tax incomes in the future, as a result of this decision,. but it was pointed out that the Treasury department could collect back taxes for the last three years. The three year limit is set by the income tax law itself. The present bill has as its purpose not, only amending the present laws to include all govern- mental employes and officials, but also to limit this retroactive effect of the Court's decision. President Roosevelt, in his message of Jan. 19, recommended such a limitation as part of his desire to make the income-tax equally applicable to all citizens. He said: "Unless Congress passes some legislation dealing with this situation prior to March 15, I am informed by the Secretary of the Treasury that he will be obliged to collect back taxes for at least 3 years upon the employes of many State agencies and upon the security holders of many State corporate instrumentali- ties . ." March 15 is the date that income-taxes are payable. Unless the bill is passed by that time, many governmental employes, including Uni- versity employes and others not engaged in essen- tially governmental functions, may find them- selves assessable for back taxes by virtue of the present interpretation of the income-tax laws. -William Elmer One very Minute . . . T HE BIGGER and better World's Fair seems on its way in Gotham these days, with the report that Sally Rand and her gals may run over from California with their fans and bubbles. Sally, it seems, presents a company of girls clad in ten-gallon hats, wide belts, and boots. She calls her show "Dnude Ranch." At the same time we hear that the Mikado and his friends are about to send over their exhibit from Japan in the form of a "Peace Bell" costing $1,000,000. Rumor has it that Americans have the wrong idea of the Japanese. This "yellow peril" business, they tell us, is all wrong. Who's been spreading this stuff, they want to know, about Japan's militarism? Who's been saying there's no democracy in Japan? At any rate, the "Peace Bell" is supposed to be modeled after the Liberty Bell in Independ- ence Hall at Philadelphia. It is an accurate repli-. ca, down to the famous cracks, but made of sil- ver and studded with 11,600 pearls and 380 diamonds. And to show that the Japanese don't play around when they mean business, it bears ' A YEAR AGO in these pages, I quoted a re- mark Maury Maverick had made to me,,that the National Labor Relations Board was facing the "dirtiest outstanding meanest low-down crooked conspiracy in the United States." Any- one who has been able, in the time that has elapsed, to get behind the barrage of lies and the perversions of Board policies in the press and on the air, to an examination of what the Board was really doing, can testify that Maverick was guilty of understatement. The smear campaign of misrepresentation and distortion of the Board's work is another link in the chain of evidence being forged by students of capitalist society to prove the tie-up that exists between big money and the "lords of the press." Unfortunately, there still remain too many people who think that they find in their newspapers "all the news that's fit to print." Secretary Ickes told them some funda- mental truths in his debate with Frank Gannett some weeks ago; if they learned nothing theli, they have only to reflect a moment on press cov- erage of the achievements of the Board. Have you learned from your newspaper that in the first three years of the Board's work, it has averted several hundred strikes, settled hun- dreds more and obtained voluntary compliance with the law in thousands of cases? Do you know thatthe accounts you have read in your news- paper of Board action pertained, in the main, to only five per cent of the total number of cases handled by the Board in its first three years of activity-cases in which resort was had to form- al hearings, reports, decisions and orders? The cases you don't read about, because your newspaper don't print them, represent 95 per cent of all the cases-all settled without formal procedure. Now, at last, you can get a complete picture of the activities of the Board in the book by Professor Brooks of Williams College, who' has just published the first full-length study of the National Labor Relations Act and its administration. (Unions of Their Own Choosing, by Robert R. R. Brooks. New Haven: Yale Uni- versity Press. 296 pages. $3). Brooks starts out with five sample cases. The first is one in which the Board dismissd the charges brought by the union against the employer (16 per cent were of this type); the second is a case in which the union, after conference with the employer and the Board representative, withdrew its charge against the employer (24 per cent were of this type); the next two are examples of "adjusted cases," in which a settlement is arrived at after conference among union, employer and Board agent (55 per cent were of this type). Informal settlement thus marked 95 per cent of the Board's cases-machinery was here provided for the successful handling of thousands of the complicated problems of industrial relationship. The fifth case is a sample of the five per cent that make the headlines-the type in which formal Board action is necessary because the employer persists in his determination to resist the principle of collective bargaining, and td violate the law deliberately. WHAT IS DIFFICULT for an fair-minded per- son to figure out after reading this true account of the Board at work is who is most d- spicable: the anti-union employers behind the campaign who issue syrupy statements about their belief in collective bargaining and at the same time stop at nothing-even murder-to prevent their workers from getting it; or the. reactionary politicians and labor fakers who mouth the lies about the Act and the Board and offer amendments to destroy their effectiveness; or the lackeys of the press who give such wide publicity to the attackers, embellish the theme with their own distortions, and either bury praise of the Board on page 32 or delete it completely. How much truth is there in the oft-repeated charge that the Act is "one-sided," that it gives everything to the employees and ties the hands of the employers completely? It is an important and little-known fact that the Act restricts em ployers' conduct in only one respect-where it is in conflict with the workers' right of self- organization and collective bargaining. the em- ployer still dominates his employees in every other way. He can still discriminate against any of his workers, cut wages, introduce the speed- up, extend the working day, shut down the plant and move to another city-do any or all of these things for any reason, except anti-unionism. The Act does not regulate the whole field of em- ployer-Worker relationships. It does nothing more or less than give the workers legal protec- tion of their right to self-organization and collective bargaining. But hadn't workers in the United States had that right for many years? Yes and no. Yes, be- cause they couldn't legally be thrown into jail for having joined a union. The law said that workers could join unions of their own. No, be- cause the law also said that employers could dis- charge them for joining. On several occasions the courts even encouraged workers to unionize -by explaining in so many words that singly they were helpless, that only through organi- sation could they deal on an equality with their employers. On other occasions the courts en- couraged employers to smash the unions-by pointing out that there was nothing in law to stop them from using spies or intimidation or discharge to prevent workers from organizing .nto those unions which were to give them equal- ity. In- effect the courts said to workers: You have the right to organize, but when that right is interfered with, don't look to the law for pro- tection. The Wagner Act, by making it an un- fair labor practice for employers to interfe* and government officials have resigned in pro- test from the advisory committee on consumers with their employees' right to self-organization, gave legal protection to the workers for the first time. * ~ ,~ DOES THIS MEAN, as has o often been charged, that the law is overbalanced on the side of the workers? Should the Act be amended to equalize the treatment accorded to employee and employer? Indeed it should-but that would not mean the kind of equalization that the proponents of the amenidment have suggested. Quite the contrary. Making the law equal would mean putting more teeth in it, not less. Consider the difference in treatment accord- ed to a worker who violates the law and an em- ployer who runs afoul of the Act. Chairman Madden made the distinction clear in an ad- dress at the 1937 convention of the AF of L. If a dispute arose and the employers were dealt with in the same way that labor is mishandled, then the police would first inquire into who caused the trouble, and concluding that it was the employer's fault, would "back the police wagon up to his office and push him in, lock him up in a dirty jail and charge him with vagrancy or being a suspicious person, set his bail or fine so high that he could not meet it, and leave him." If, on the other hand, a worker in violation of the law were to be given the same mild treatment accorded to the employer, then this is what would happen: . . . "If Picket, a union man on strike, violated the law, the employer would file a. charge in our regional office, perhaps some hundred miles away. Our office would write a letter or telephone politely to Picket and ask him for his side of the story. An investigator would go out as soon as convenient and attelptt to ascertain the true facts. If the investigation indicated that the employer's charge against Picket was apparently well founded and if Picket indicated that he was unwilling to bring him- self into compliance with the law, a formal com- plaint would be issued against Picket, giving him not less than five days' notice that a hear- ing would be held before a Trial Examiner to be sent from Washington. The hearing would pro- ceed and in due time the Trial Examiner would make an intermediate report. If he thought Picket had violated the law, he would recommend that Picket 'cease and desist' from further vio- lations, and post a notice that he would sin no' more. If Picket followed this recommendation, that would be the end of the proceeding. If, how- ever, Picket was recalcitrant, the entire record of the hearing would be forwarded to the Board in Washington, which, after studying it, might make an order similar to the Trial Examiner's recommendation. This 9rder would be served upon Picket with a request that he inform the Board within a specified reasonable time what steps'he had taken to comply with the Board's order. If Picket expressly or by silence gave the Board to understand that he didn't intend to comply with the Board's order at all, then the Board would file a petition in the United States Court of Appeals, and have the record printed, and file briefs and make oral arguments when the Picket case had its turn on the docket. The three judges of that court would deliberate, and if they concluded that the Boards' order was supported by evidence and well founded in law, they would enter a decree that Picket should comply with the Board's order. Then, after all these months, Picket would for the first time face the alternative of obeying the law or going to jail." It is quite evident from this comparison that it is the workers, not the employers, who carry the greater legal burden. That should be kept in mind when there is any further clamor for "equality." The Act was designed to bring peace in the industrial field. Has it done so? The answer to such trick questions as "Why hasn't the Board stopped strikes?" is simple. It has. Where it hasn't, those employers who ask the questions can find the answer in their own anti-union practices. * * * THE AF of L has proposed an amendment which would make it obligatory on the Board, in effect, to fix the collective-bargaining unit as the craft unit. This is suggested because of the Board's alleged CIO bias. What are the facts? Professor Brooks gives the figures for the vital cases on the question of the determination of1 the appropriate unit (e.g., Allis-Chalmers case): "Of these forty-eight cases, twenty-four were clearly settled in favor of the AF of L, nineteen were clearly settled in favor of the CIO, and five cases were compromised, but with the AF of L receiving a slight advantage in four instances." The author ascribes the bitterness of the AF of L against the Board to the fact 'that in the first 208 election contests involving both the CIO and the AF of L, the former won 77 per cent, the latter only 23 per cent. But since this is a reflec- tion of the will of the voters and not of Board bias, he shrewdly observes that "such bitterness is, in some respects, comparable to an attack on the use of voting machines because they record the victory of the party with the largest number of votes." Should employers be allowed to request the Board to hold an election? Is the Board, as Mark - Sullivan charged on Jan. 26, 1939, "earnestly' upholding sitdown strikes in some cases"? Does the Board act like "a French Revolutionary tri- bunal"? What is the record of the Board in the courts? Does the Board combine under one head the functions of judge, prosecutor and jury? (It should be noted that the employers who are so outraged at this have never had difficulty in ;wallowing their rage when the judge who grant- ed their injunctions sat as judge, prosecutor and jury.) Should an amendment be passed prohibit- ing "coercion from any source," i.e., from union- ists? Should there be judicial review of findings The FLYING TRAPEZE By Roy Heath ACCORDING to a press release re- cently received from the National Headquarters of the American Youth Hostels, Mr. Hugh Walpole once spoke in the following idealistic vein concerning the salutory effects the Youth Hostel system is capable of working: "Wouldn't it be wonderful if Ramsay viacDonald, M. Herriot, Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler could go youth hosteling for a week carrying their knapsacks on their backs, cook- ing their own ineals and exchanging ideas. It would be a great thing for the world." Now I am as great a believer in plenty of exercise and fresh air as Mr. Walpole. I also feel that much good has come of the International Youth Hostels. Recent events, how- ever, have rendered me somewhat skeptical as to the outcome of any such hobknobing as Mr. Walpole recommends as being capable of al- leviating the headaches of the world. I realize that Mr. MacDonald and Mr. Herriot are not the same men as Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Daladier and that two of them spending an uneasy weekend recently as guests of Hitler and his bully-buddy Benito is not one and the same with the four of them hiking over hill and dale in company with Josef Stalin of Moscow. NEVERTHELESS, I don't think I could sleep soundly at nights if I knew the four of them were out hiking together. It stands to reason that if four men cannot settle their grievances in a palace replete with all the modern conveniences, a whole cellar of vintage at their command and everything but their own natures working together to lull them into a state of lethargic good humor, they are men practically incapable of co- operation. By no stretch of the imagi- nation could they be supposed the type likely to mellow under the jovial' companionship of the open road. It would be but a matter of time until ants, blistered feet, short ra- tions and hot sun would make Benito, Neville, Adolph and Edouard as jit- tery as they make the world. Rain would probably prove the factor which would rob them of their last pre- tenses of good fellowship. Benito and Adolph would most certainly make a grab at Neville's umbrella. The out- break of the Armageddon would be only a matter of the time it would take the four men to reach their re- spective Chancellories. The Editor. Gets Told.. . In Re Catholics To the Editor: In answer to the past articles on the Spanish church and especially concerning the one in the issue of the Daily of March the first I would like to present the following point. I am a Spaniard, educated in the Catholics schools of Spain, including the Uni- versity of Barcelona, and I feel that I am in a position to argue in opposi- tion to the statement of the other letter. Its author stated in question form: "How is it that in an almost purely Catholic count peope c turn , against the church in such a fashion?"1 In the village of Sitges, about twen- ty miles from Barcelona, immediatelys after the start of the revolution9 nothing happened to the priest and the church of this locality; but short- ly after, a few armed militia of the anarchist party (F.A.I.). entered the; village and proceeded to the home of, the priest, arrested and murdered him in the same village. After this they went to the church and in the presence of the entire village, threw the furnishings of the church into; the sea, including all the images and holy things of the church. A machin'e gun was placed across from the church to prevent any possible action of those present and witnesses of the scene, of ,which I was a wit- ness. Similar situations can be found in all Spanish villages controlledby "loyalists," I am attempting to point out with this example that the major-3 ity of the people in Spain, which is the most Catholic country in the world, were opposed to these actions but lacked the power to defend their rights. Therefore the Catholic people of Spain cannot be criticized for fail- ing to support the Catholic church at this time.cBut their loyalty to the Catholic church was indeed made manifest in the mass held in The Plaza de Cataluna after the entrance of Franco. All these acts against the Catholic church were only a step in the plan for the introduction of Communism into Spain. --Jorge Carulla DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Copy received at the office of the Assistant to the President untl 3:30 P.M.; 11:00 A.M. on Saturday. (Continued from Page 2) faculty. These terms and conditions are, in brief, the payment by the in- dividual of 5 per cent of his or her annual compensation asypremium up- on an old-age annuity with addi- tional, equal payment by the Univer- sity for the same purpose. In all cases premium payments by the University as well as premium pay- tments by the individual, plus inter- est, are the permanent possession of the individual under the terms of the contract with the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association. In case of death before reaching retirement age all accumulations go into the estate of the individual. It should not be understood that this offer is being made to employees; the purpose of this notice is, rather, to find out how many would take advantage of the offer if made and thus to know whether the plan is de- sired, and if so to enable an esti- mate of the cost of putting the plan into operation, if decided upon. Ca'rds have been prepared and are available in the offices of the Deans, and other principal University of- fices, on whicheinterested employees may file, in the Business Office, by Campus mail or otherwise, their de- sire to participate in such a plan if established. Replies are desired by the Business Office not later than Feb. 28. 1939. a Shirley W. Smith. . Academic Notices Students, College of Literature, Sci-; ence, and the Arts: No course may be elected for credit after today. E. A. Walter. Psychology 31: Make-up final ex- amination for all sections will be held1 on March 7, at 7:30 p.m., in Room 3126, Natural Science Building. Psychology 33, 34, 41 and 42 make- ups for final examinations will beI held Tuesday, March 7, in Room 2116, Natural Science Bldg.I English 293 (Bibliography): Thei class will not meet on Monday, butf on Tuesday at four o'clock. Exhibitions Exhibition, College of Architecture:I Photographs and drawings of Mich-( igan's historic old houses made dur-s ing the recent Historical AmericanI Buildings Survey are being ;shown,I through the courtesy of the J. L. Hud- son Company of Detroit. Third Floor Exhibition Room, Architectural Bldg., through March 11. Open daily, 9 to 5.r The public is cordially invited. P Exhibition of Modern Book Art: Printing and Illustration, held underf the sponsorship of the Ann Arbor Art Association. Rackham Building, third floor Exhibition Room; dailyj except Sunday, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.; through March 25. Lectures University Lecture: Dr. P. Sargent Florence, Professor of Commerce at4 the University of Birmingham, Eng-I land, will lecture on "The BritishI Cooperative Movement" at 4:15 p.m.,( Thursday, March 16, in the Rackham 'x Lecture Hall, under the auspices of the Department of Economics. ihei public is cordially invited. University Lecture: Mr. Louis Un-F termeyer will lecture on "The Poetr vs. the Average Man" on Monday, I March 13, at 8:15 p.m. in the Rack-F ham Lecture Hall under the auspices of the Department of English in ther College of Engineering. The public is cordially invited to attend. Henry Russel Lecture for 1938-39:1 Professor Campbell Bonner, Chair- I man of the Department of Greek, will deliver the Henry Russel Lecture fori 1938-39, on the subject, "Sophocles, Aristotle, and the Tired Business Man," at 4:15 p.m., Wednesday, March 22, in the Rackham Amphithe- atre. The announcement of the Henry Russel Award for 1938-39 will be made at this time. The public is cordially invited. Biological Chemistry Lecture: Mon- day, March 6, 4 p.m., East Lecture. Room (Mezzanine Floor) of Rackham+ Building. Professor Arthur H. Smith of Wayne University will lecture to graduate students inrBiological Chem- istry and to others interested 'on "Citric Acid as a Factor in Animal Metabolism." Events Today International Center: 1. This evening at 8 o'clock, the students at the Center are urged to take part in our monthly sports night at the Intramural Building. Meet at the Center at 7:45 sharp. 2. Prof. James Plumer, Lecturer on Far Eastern Art in the University In- stitute of Fine Arts, will speak at 7 o'clock, 'following the usual Sunday evening supper, on "The Relatinn sity in Beirut must be in the office of the Counselor to Foreign Students by Monday, March 6, at 5 o'clock. The Graduate Outing Club will meet this evening at 6:30 p.m. at the corner of State and Packard Streets to attend the basketball game. At 9:30, following the game, they will start from the northwest door of the .Rackham Building and go for a moonlight hike to Geddes Lake. Later efreshments will be served in the club room. All graduate students are nvited. The Outdoor Club will meet at Lane Hall at 2 o'clock for a hike. Since future programs will depend on this meeting all members are urged to be present. All students interested are welcome to attend. Choir: The regular rehearsal of the University Choir will be held at Lane Hall tonight from 7 to 8 o'clock. Open House: Tonight, 8 p.m., Open House all evening in Lane Hall for faculty and students. Informal con- versation, -recreation and music. ASU Labor Committee meeting this afternoon at 1:45 in the Lane Hall conference room,. All interested are invited. Coming Events The Women's Research Club will meet Monday, March 6, 1939, at 7:30 p.m. in the West Lecture Hall of the Rackham Building. Miss Katharine C. Turner will speak on "Richard Hovey's Poetry in Relation to Certain Tendencies of the 1890's." Miss Dor- othy Myers will speak on "The W.P.A. Michigan State Wide Museums Proj- ect." German Table for Faculty Members: The regular luncheon meeting will be held Monday at 12:10 p.m. in the Founders' Room of the Michigan Union. All faculty members interest- ed in speaking German are cordially invited. There will 'be a brief in- formal talk by Dr. Hans H. Gerth on, "Die Universitaten im gegenwartigen Deutschland." Mathematics Short Course: The preliminary meeting for the short course to be given by Dr. Elder this semester in "Analytic Theory of Numbers" will be held on Monday, March 6, at 3 o'clock, in 3201 A.H. This course will meet for five weeks. The Junior Research Club: The March meeting will be held Tuesday, March 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the amphi- theatre of the Rackham Building. ,Dr. J. W. Leonard of the Institute for Fisheries Reseearch will speak on "The Bottom Fauna of Trout Streams and its Relation to Trout ProJuction." Prof. W. J. Nungester L. F. Cation will speak mococcal Infection" and P rof on , "Pneu- The Graduate Education Club will hold a meeting Tuesday, March 7, at 4:00 in the Graduate Education Li- brary, University Elementary School. Dean Edmonso and three members of the staff will give brief reports on recent educational meetings held in gCleveland. All graduate students tak- ing courses in Education are welcome. Notice to All Buffalo Men: Scalp and Blade cordially invites all Buffalo men to a smoker to be held at the Union, Sunday, March 5, at 5 o'clock. Preceding the ;.smoker, at 4 o'clock there will be a regular meeting for all members. The Graduate Outing Club, follow- ing a short business meeting at the Rackham Building at 3 p.m., Sunday, March 5, will hike' to Barton Hills, and those who desire may skate on Barton Pond. Supper will be served in the club room. All interested are invited to attend. Hillel Play: Anyone interested in working in the box office for the Hillel Play callEleanor Feldman at 2-2591 by Tuesday evening. The Lutheran Student Club will meet at Zion Parish House, 5:30 p.m. Sunday. Miss Francis Wang will speak about current conditions in China at the discussion hour at 6:45. Monday Evening Dramatic Club: Faculty Women's Club, at the Union, 7:30 Monday night. Churches Disciples Guild (Church of Christ): 10:45 a.m. morning worship. Rev. Frederick Cowin, minister. 5:30 p.m. Social hour and tea. 6:30 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Pick- erill will speak briefly on the topic "The Purpose, Significance and Problems of Engagement." Ques- tions submittedby members of the Guild will be the basis for discussion following the talks. This is the third in a series of programs on "Court-