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EXTORTION
IS an ugly word. But it was used by a Presidential Fact-Finding Board in refusing to grant the demands of four railroad Brotherhoods. Repeated resort to strikes and threats of strikes in place of procedures set up by the Railway Labor Act, brought stinging rebuke to leaders of unions who are attempting to constitute themselves claimant, judge, and jury. A SPADE HAS FINALLY BEEN CALLED A SPADE.
In three major instances in scarcely more than a year, leaders of raihoad unions have called strikes to enforce their own interpretation of existing agreements.
Their object is to force the railroads to pay claims totahng millions of dollars for work not done, for work already paid for, and work not needed to be done at all.
Strikes versus Orderly Process of Low
The Railway Labor Act was intended to prevent railroad strikes. It had the support of both labor and management. In addition to providing peaceful means for reaching agreements on wages and working conditions, the Act provides orderly means for settling disputes that arise over the meaning or interpretation of such agreements.
There are five ways imder the Railway Labor Act to obtain final and impartial decisions on disputes over the meaning of contracts. These are the National Railroad Adjustment Board, created by the Railway Labor Act for this specific purpose; a system adjustment board; arbitration; a referee; and the courts.
"Black Jacking"-Union Style!
In the most recent case, involving the New York
Central Railroad Company, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, the Order of Railway Conductors and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, the vmion leaders ignored all five methods provided by law for disposing of such disputes.
When the New York Central stood its ground against the union leaders who demanded that they be the sole imipires of their own disputes over the meaning of their contracts, they threatened to strike. Thereupon President Truman appointed an Emergency Board. This Board consisted of Frank M. Swacker, attorney. New York City; Paul G. Jasper, Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court; and Wayne Quinlan, attorney, Oklahoma City.
**Extortlon/' Says Presidential Board
In its report to President Truman, this Board said: "The growing practice of creating an emergency in order to bring about the appointment of an Emergency Board in the hope that it will make more favorable recommendations concerning contentions about grievances, with no binding effect if the reverse recommendation shoiild be made, has been rovmdly condemned by several emergency boards and commented on by the National Mediation Board in its annual report.
"In the instance case it has reached a flagrant
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