PAGE SIX MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1949 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS The Editorial Page Collective Bargaining Twice in the past 15 years we have established by law national policy with respect to collective bargaining. In 1935 the National Labor Relations act launched us on a policy of government sponsored collective bargaining. The method used was simply to enable workers to organize unions and to compel employers to negotiate with them. That experiment was hardly well under way when the second world war engulfed us. By mutual and voluntary agreement between unions and management, free collective bargaining was largely replaced by government control of industrial relations through a system of tri-partite boards. After the shooting ended and controls were largely removed, we were plagued by a veritable flood of strikes. A few powerful unions and a few arrogant labor leaders seemed to threaten the stability of the economy. Congress felt compelled to change public policy. The Taft-Hartley law was enacted as a "balance of power" measure to cut powerful and arrogant unions down to "size." We then embarked upon an experiment in government-regulated collective bargaining, with special provisions for protecting the public in disputes endangering the national safety and welfare. Now we are again engaged in bitter labor-management strife, with two major industrial disputes that threaten the stability of the economy and the public welfare. It is absolutely clear that free collective bargaining does not result in stable industrial relations. It is also clear that the Taft-Hartley "emergency" provisions are not adequate to protect the public against crippling disputes, although they will, when used, postpone the crippling effects. Is another change in our collective bargaining policy in order? Surely we are not now likely to go back to Wagnerian free collective bargaining. It is more likely that public controls over collective bargaining will be increased. The only other possible course of action would be to let the giants fight it out. A stiff test on the economic front would indicate what concessions are necessary for industrial peace, at least for the time being. But that would hurt, and at a time when every blow is doubly damaging—to the internal economy and to international policy. The delicacy of the international situation precludes a definitive test on the economic front. It would appear that we are in for more government regulation of the economy. -Domenico Gagliardo, professor of economics 'Small Things' Is Ernie Friesen worth $108? Of course not. We read just the other day that the chemicals in the average human body would bring a mere 98 cents in the open market. And speaking of money, the sophomore wolf wants his back. He'd been given to understand that this Robert Shaw Chorale thing was a rodeo. Is Ernie Friesen worth $108? We'd like to know who thinks it's worth a $14 ad to ask if Ernie Friesen is worth $108. - Letters To The Editor The A.S.C. Dear Editor: There are a few mistaken impressions about the A.S.C. and the salary bill which I feel it is my duty to correct. 1. I presented the salary bill without consulting any of the officers. The bill was recommended in my financial report as A.S.C. treasurer for 1948-49. 2 I presented it because I had observed the work the officers did, compared it to other salaried positions of students on this campus, and at other schools, and saw a disparity, knowing full well the time consumed in directing the activities of student government. The president spends about 12 to 15 hours a week in meetings and doing the work of the council. The treasurer, plus keeping the books, is required to write reports and be conversant with all the facts concerning any organization asking for money both before and after the appropriation. Judging from my experience, he spends about 20 hours a week at the first of school on these matters and about 8 or 9 hours a week the rest of the semester. The secretary spends as much time as does the president in typing reports, letters and minutes, plus the filing of these, which in the past has not been done when the past has not been done. 2. Friesen did not vote for the 4. I have not seen anything done by the president which would lead me to believe that he is either corrupt or not acting in the best interests of the student body, and I would personally like to hear of specific instances where he, acting alone and without support of a majority of the elected members of the A.S.C., has so acted. bill, nor did he have anything to do with the drafting of the bill. He has informed me that he thinks it might be advisable to reconsider the bill because of student opinion. 5. I readily admit that many of the arguments raised against the salary are valid, but I still believe that the salary is necessary in the light of the work done by these officers. I also admit that it is not only possible but probable that I am mistaken and if so, I apologize to the students for doing what I believed to be right but what others may think wrong. meeting to answer questions in regard to what the council has done and to hear gripes from students who are really interested. I have prepared a detailed list of all things the A.S.C. has done, both good and bad, which I would be glad to present. 7. The chancellor has not yet signed the bill making it law, but if he should, I would suggest that the student who is fully conscious of student government and who knows the facts, would petition for a referendum instead of recalling a man who had nothing to do with the drafting, passing, or promulgating of the bill. 8. I would personally welcome the idea of having a huge, but orderly I am sure that the fact-finding student will recognize that the A.S. C. and campus government in general are far from perfect, and that there are also many ways in which they do benefit the students. I understand some of the mainstays in this controversy are people who lost in the last election. I will readily admit that the election system is far from perfect and many of us are working for a reform. I also understand that some of the most vehement critics are disappointed appropriations seekers. There, too, there can be a lot of improvement. To criticize factually the action of the government is both admirable and necessary, but to criticize without the facts either the person or the system, fails, in my opinion, to achieve a just or factual result. Robert F. Bennett First year law student Anti-Trust Dear Editor: In reference to the editorial written by Emlin North on Oct. 24. I present to you these facts, only to set the record straight. A&P is now making an appeal to the public by spending large sums in a publicity campaign, to mobilize consumers to write to their congressman and ask that the government drop its suit against A&P. Actual fact, ignored by the ad, as well as by the newspapers, is that A&P was found guilty of criminal violation of the anti-trust laws, paid a token $175,000 fine, (1946) and blithely proceeded along its same monopolistic lines. The new suit is the government's only recourse to stop A&P from doing what it has already been found guilty of doing. On the floor of the house, on May 24, 1945, Wright Patman, representative from Texas, presented definite figures showing how A&P obtained "in 1941 stock gains totaling $1,953,-000". Stock gains "are secured by such practices in retail stores as short weighting, short changing, boosting of prices at check-out counters, etc." Moreover, A&P follows the classical rule of lowering prices in areas where there is competition, and raising prices in other areas where it has a virtual monopoly—thus making consumers in several areas make up its losses elsewhere. After The Smoking Tobacco with a B.M.E.* Degree! * Burns More Evenly Pause for a Puff of HEINE'S BLEND ... competition is driven out, it raises prices again. In the last paragraph of the editorial, it is stated that there is "an increasing tendency for the government to attack institutions merely because they are big. In a country where free enterprise and the right to be a millionaire is the rule, such action is almost tyranny." To that I quote Wright Patman on A&P; "A monopoly of this type must be crushed in the interest of public welfare and common decency in business dealing. 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