HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE EIGHTY-FIRST CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON S. 249 A BILL TO DIMINISH THE CAUSES OF LABOR DISPUTES AND FOREIGN COMMERCE, AND 85905 PART 2 FEBRUARY 4, 5, AND 7, 1949 Printed for the use of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1949 I. ALPHABETICAL LIST OF WITNESSES Beirne, Joseph A., president, Communications Workers of America.. Clayton, Lawrence, member of Board of Governors, Federal Reserve Sys- Davis, William H., patent attorney, New York, N. Y. Denham, Hon. Robert N., general counsel, National Labor Relations Dunnagan, Carl E., president, Printing Industry of America Hampton, Leon B., president, Industrial Relations Council of Utah, and official spokesman for Utah State Farm Bureau, Utah Retail Grocers Association, Utah Manufacturers Association, and Utah Automobile Herrmann, Lewis M., secretary-treasurer, International Labor Press of America, AFL; member of New Jersey Legislature, and editor of New Keener, J. Ward, vice president, B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio. Reilly, Gerard D., counsel, union employers section, Printing Industry of Roth, Almon E., president, San Francisco Employers Council. Teller, Ludwig, attorney at law, New York, N. Y. Whitehouse, Oscar, secretary, union employers section, Printing Industry of America__ II. CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES Almon E. Roth, president, San Francisco Employers Council__ Joseph A. Beirne, president, Communications Workers of America__ Lewis M. Herrmann, secretary-treasurer, International Labor Press of America, AFL; member of New Jersey Legislature, and editor of Leon B. Hampton, president, Industrial Relations Council of Utah, and official spokesman for Utah State Farm Bureau, Utah Retail Grocers Association, Utah Manufacturers Association, and Utah Ludwig Teller, attorney at law, New York, N. Y... Lawrence Clayton, member of Board of Governors, Federal Reserve Carl E. Dunnagan, president, Printing Industry of America. Thomas P. Henry, Jr., president, union employers section, Printing Gerard D. Reilly, counsel, union employers section, Printing Industry Oscar Whitehouse, secretary, union employers section, Printing Hon. Robert N. 'Denham, general counsel, National Labor Relations III. STATEMENTS AND COMMUNICATIONS Davis, William H., patent attorney, New York, N. Y., insertions of― Bagley, James K., executive secretary, Utah Manufacturers Associa- Jacobsen, J. Max, president, Utah Retail Grocers Association, Salt Shelley, Frank G., executive secretary, Utah State Farm Bureau Humphrey, Hon. Hubert H., a United States Senator from the State of Letter of Robert E. Smith, chairman, Life Insurance Policyholders Morse, Hon. Wayne, a United States Senator from the State of Oregon, insertion of— Article II of United States Constitution... Roth, Almon E., president, San Francisco Employers Council, insertion Tobin, Hon. Maurice J., Secretary of Labor, a New Year's Day Teller, Ludwig, attorney at law, New York, N. Y., insertions of Document of, entitled, "The Requirements of a National Labor Memorandum submitted by, in re proposing a law regarding second- Memorandum of, in re legal rights of an unincorporated labor union (in the absence of a statute such as the Taft-Hartley Act) to adopt rules governing admission of members, their conduct while members, and their expulsion from membership.. Thomas, Hon. Elbert D., a United States Senat r from the State of Utah, insertions of Par 92 94 71 71 717 710 697 554 593 871 825 811 818 812 La Roe, Wilbur, Jr., statement of, in behalf of National Independent 987 Van Arkel, Gerhard P., statement by, in behalf of Americans for 766 UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE, The committee met, pursuant to adjournment, at 9:30 a. m., in the T LABOR RELATIONS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1949 Senators Thomas (chairman), Murray, Pepper, Hill, Neely, Douglas, Humphrey, Withers, Taft, Aiken, Smith, Morse, and Donnell. Also present: Senator William F. Knowland. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. We will start out with Mr. Roth, who has to catch a plane, and the witness who was scheduled to appear first will come after. Mr. ROTH. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate your accommodation. The CHAIRMAN. Mr. Roth, please state your name and whom you represent, and then you may state anything you want to say. STATEMENT OF ALMON E. ROTH, PRESIDENT, SAN FRANCISCO Mr. ROTH. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, my name is Almon E. Roth, and I am president of the San Francisco Employers Council, which is composed of some 2,000 employers, some of whom are individual members, and some who hold their membership through membership in constituent organizations. I served as the first president of the Waterfront Employers Association of the Pacific Coast and for 2 years also was president of the Pacific American Ship Owners from March 1937 to January 1, 1939. I also served as a member of the National War Labor Board, an industry member, and as an industry representative on the President's Labor-Management Conference. I should like to say at the outset that I disagree most emphatically with Secretary of Labor Tobin's statement that the Labor-Management Relations Act has brought confusion to the field of labor relations. I am sure that the record will show that during that period the strikes, in fact, declined from 2,958 for the first 4 months of 1947 to 2,130 for the same period in 1948, and we know that hourly earnings increased during this period from $1.236 in August 1947 to $1.363 in September 1948. |