ECONOMIC WAR

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 159, 2 April 1937, Page 11

ECONOMIC WAR

U.S.A. Senator Charges Corporations

SPIES AND VIOLENCE

Shattering Liberties of Workers DEFIANCE OF CONGRESS By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. ( Received April 1. 10.40 p.m.) Washington. April 1. In a speech in the Senate, Senator Robert F. Wagner (Democrat, New York), who introduced the National Labour Relations Act, contended that the sit-down strikes were provoked by the long-standing and ruthless tactics of a few great corporations. Labour won by way of sit-down strikes only such industrial liberties as the law of morals had long he said. The Government’s lack of power to enforce the Labour Relations Act was responsible for economic warfare. The workers, denied a fair share of the products of industry by the greed of monopoly capital, were forced to use the strike weapon. The real law-breakers were the corporations who openly defied the law and Congress, and who systematically used spies, violence and terrorism to shatter the workers’ liberties as defined by Congress, Mr. Wagner said.

COAL-MINE STRIKE

(Received April 1, 10.30 p.m.)

New York, April 1.

The chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organisation, Mr. John L. Lewis, has ordered a stoppage of 400,000 soft coalminers in 12 States. The operators rejected a tentative wage and hour agreement accepted by a sub-committee.