Report Outline
Labor Disputes and the Defense Emergency
Labor Controversies in Defense Industries
Machinery for Settlement of Disputes
Proposed Compulsory Labor Controls
Special Focus
Labor Disputes and the Defense Emergency
Strikes and threats of strikes in plants working on government contracts have produced demands, in Congress and elsewhere, that legislation be enacted to provide for compulsory mediation of labor disputes affecting the defense program. Some labor critics have gone so far as to advocate the complete banning of strikes in defense industries or even the introduction of labor conscription to prevent interference with defense production. Allegations that certain unions have been exacting exorbitant initiation fees from men seeking work on Army cantonment construction projects have likewise brought demands for corrective legislation.
Addressing the nation by radio in a fireside chat, December 29, 1940, President Roosevelt said:
The nation expects our defense industries to continue operation without interruption by strikes or lockouts. It expects and insists that management and workers will reconcile their differences by voluntary or legal means, to continue to produce the supplies that are so sorely needed. |
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