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Last week it was the embarrassing task of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency's fourth-generation head to discuss that law in Washington before the Senate committee investigating labor spying and coercion (TIME, Feb. 8). From the agency's instruction book, Committee Chairman La Follette read an item order-ing operatives to submit their bills to Government officials on "plain paper...
...agreement stipulated: 1) the Union would call off the strike; 2) General Motors would recognize the Union as collective bargaining agent for its members; 3) both sides would behave peaceably- no coercion, no Union recruiting on company property, no more court action by the company; 4) both sides would begin negotiations this week on the grievances of the Union, and production would be resumed at once...
...workers in General Motors' plants. General Motors responded that 110,000 of its 135,000 motors production employes had signed petitions or otherwise protested against being thrown out of work by the strike of the upstart union. This, said the union, was due to company coercion. Impartial observers did not credit the union's claim that it had the support of a majority, and the union made no attempt to prove it in the one way possible: by appealing to the National Labor Relations Board which would order an election. Making peace as well as making...
...Which would result in public ownership in ten to 20 of these cities might practically destroy the ability of the large systems to render maximum service or to maintain economical generation and transmission systems. Effort to bring about such disruption seems to be under way. . . . Private companies should cease coercion, in the form of obstructive litigation, inaccurate and misleading propaganda. . . . Public officials should cease coercion, as by subsidies to duplicating and competing systems, by threats of constructing duplicating systems...
...best. . . . When the mature result is achieved it may be neither private power as we know it, nor public power as we know it now, but something new in government. That achievement will not come best in an atmosphere of warfare and of arbitrary coercion...