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Under the New Deal the U. S. Government for the first time in its political history has a national labor policy. That policy, however, was codified, in the Wagner Act, two years ago before the Great Schism in U. S. Labor-at a time when men thought there were only two parties to a labor dispute, employer and-employe. But the body that administers this new labor policy-the National Labor Relations Board-soon found that there could be three major parties to a dispute- employer, A. F. of L. and C. I. O., that the greatest bitterness is frequently...
...industry as it had never been split before. Outmaneuvered by Mr. Taylor, outsmarted by Mr Lewis the big independent steelmakers were fired with a wrath born of isolation. Big Steel and the little fellows had later yielded recognition to the C.I. O. For the first time since the schism was opened ast spring when U.S. Steel's President William Adolf Irvin telephoned his competitors the incredible news, the two factions sat down in the same room...
...last week to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. Among the 900 "commissioners" to the Assembly was one who had stayed away from its last meeting in Columbus four years ago, because of the "controversy and acrimony" he knew would arise over the schism led by Fundamentalist Dr. J. Gresham Machen. This absentee was Rev. Dr. William Hiram Foulkes, moderate Presbyterian, sonorous orator, pastor of Old First Church in Newark, N. J. By last week the acrimony had subsided, Dr. Machen had died, his rebel church was rent by theological squabbles over millennialism...
...come to appeal to the public. He issued a formal statement, setting down his personal views. Long and mild, indulging in no personalities, it turned out to be a state paper setting forth the fundamental choice in power policies that lies before the New Deal, expounding a great schism in liberal philosophy...
...This schism in the ranks can ruin the A.F. of L., but not the labor movement. Vertical or industrial organization is most suited to modern conditions, where machinery is eliminating the need for special skill and makes all labor of about the same grade and value. If present developments continue, the C.I.O. may embrace all vertical unions, leaving the crafts to the Federation. While the horizontal unions now have some 2,500,000 members, there are 23,000,000 workers whom the A.F. of L. has failed to attract at all along craft lines, and presumably these men will join...