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One Man's Opinion
Right-To-Work Bill Valid
Gov. George Docking recently blasted Kansas legislators for "monkeying around with issues not for the benefit of the state," when a Republican caucus from the House voted overwhelmingly in favor of submitting the right-to-work issue to a state-wide referendum.
The decision of the caucus is expected to be introduced into the Legislature soon and then the people of the state will be asked to settle the matter once and for all.
The right-to-work bill is no stranger to the state of Kansas. It was passed by the Kansas House and Senate in the 1955 session, but was vetoed by Gov. Fred Hall.
The primary purpose of the right-to-work bill is to forbid union shop contracts between management and labor, requiring employees to join a union within a prescribed time.
The leading opponents of the right-to-work bill are the various unions, and their leaders, who assert the bill will kill unions, lower wages, and hurt business in general.
At the present time, some 18 states have passed the right-to-work bill, or the bill outlawing the closed union shop as it is sometimes called.
Many proponents of the right-to-work bill figure that instead of discouraging workers from joining unions, it will ultimately encourage them to join when they are given the opportunity to look at them more objectively. Thus they may become convinced it is to their best interest to join.
The issue of the right-to-work bill is not whether labor unions are good or bad. It is not to glorify the benefits workers may get through
The issue is on whether the American worker should be forced, under penalty of losing his job, to join and support a particular organization, whether it be a union, church, civic club, or any other group.
As for the right-to-work bill hurting business, statistics from those states who have put the bill into action would tend to disprove this theory.
True, the right-to-work bill would prohibit compulsory unionism, yet at the same time it would promote and protect voluntary unionism.
Sales Management, the magazine of marketing in an article entitled "Survey of Buying Power," said states using the right-to-work bill increased their retail sales over a six-year period to 52.9 per cent, compared with 44.1 per cent over the rest of the nation.
The report also stated that automobile ownership increased 60 per cent in right-to-work states, compared with 48.2 per cent in the rest of the states.
It is not asserted here that the difference in these figures are due solely to the fact that these states had passed the right-to-work bill.
Another comparison showed that business and personal savings were up 35.1 per cent over the same six-year period, compared with 26.2 per cent in the states not having the right-to-work bill.
However, these figures would tend to discredit the argument put up by the opponents of the right-to-work bill who say that if passed it would restrict the economy by lowering wages and taking away the purchasing power from the worker.
—Leroy Zimmerman
Quagmire Or Parking Lot?
Student drivers are still wading through the slime in four Brigham Young University parking lots.
This sport, which may well become as unpopular—but as prevalent—as booing at basketball games, is ruinous to hundreds of student dispositions each day, not to mention trousers, skirts and shoes.
Is Brigham Young University such an informal and pioneering school that wilderness conditions must exist in the parking lots?
The sad state of these lots—which could be graveled for slightly more than $700 per acre—is enough to justify students' reverting to the more casual—and certainly cheaper—style of wearing old clothes and shoes to school.
This idea certainly has merit if the parking lots are to be left in their present soupy condition.
Many administrators at BYU feel a newspaper, especially the student newspaper, should utilize more discretion in "airing the school's dirty laundry in public."
The Daily Universe stands on the premise that if the situation has deteriorated to the extent that BYU's parking lots have, the laundry should be aired until the parking lots are brought to a suitable condition for student use.
It is maintained that these parking lots are not in a decent condition even for a construction project, much less for students who are expected to dress well and make a mature, presentable appearance each day.
For a university which takes pride in its appearance, these parking lots are more than a pathetic disgrace, they are disgustingly degrading.
Brigham Young Daily Universe
Is Stassen Being Dumped?
Once again the old adage in politics, "it doesn't pay to buck the party," was brought back into the news recently.
Harold E. Stassen, presidential disarmament aide for the last two years and the man who headed the "Dump Nixon" campaign in the 1956 election, was demoted by President Eisenhower.
The change puts Stassen, the former Minnesota governor, under the policy guidance of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Also, from now on he will report directly to the State Department head instead of directly to Eisenhower.
Dulles and the White House both said the demotion, or "transfer" as they called it, means "no change" in Stassen's title and the work he will be doing. Both insisted it means only that from now on he will report to Dulles instead of the President and will be under State Department policy supervision.
However, it is believed that the removal of Stassen from direct contact with the President, will mean that it won't be too difficult to lose Stassen in the frantic shuffle of the State Department.
What Stassen's eventual reaction to these recent developments will be is hard to predict at the present time.
It is no secret that Stassen has been very interested in the presidency ever since his first unsuccessful try for the nomination in 1948. One course of action he may take
If Stassen could follow this course of action successfully, although it is considered a near possibility, it would give him a much stronger position in national politics when the 1960 election rolls around.
is that of resigning his present position and then making a bid for the governorship of Pennsylvania.
The Hall of Fame for Great Americans is on the campus of New York University on University Heights in the Bronx, New York. The hall and adjoining buildings were built with funds contributed by the late Mrs. Finley J. Shepard. Only persons dead 25 years or more are eligible.
No matter what course of action he choses, it looks as if Stassen definitely will have to look for a different job if he is going to continue as a prominent figure on the American political scene. From all indications, the administration evidently believes his services are no longer in great demand.
Such an influential position might put him in a place where party leaders would have to consider him as a possible candidate.
—Leroy Zimmerman
Tediously dipping tapers on a kitchen stove in Syracuse, New York, German immigrant Anton Will in 1855 pioneered commercial candle-making in the United States. The firm he founded now makes candles for the Vatican.
Cold Kansas is further south than the well known resort area of the Mediterranean coast of France.
The Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918 was one of the most devastating of all time, but was obscured by World War I. More than five million persons died of the disease in the United States alone.
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