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shipping method in April.
West Coast mill operator-plaintiffs in the suit against ICC have for years sent carloads of lumber eastward by deliberately roundabout routes to give them more time to negotiate a sale in the Midwest or East in effect using the cars as rolling warehouses.
ICC banned the practice in hopes of easing an expected summertime freight car shortage. Ironically, the lumber market is now so weak it is doubtful whether there would have been a car shortage. But ICC fought to uphold its order, fearing an adverse decision could put all of its car service orders in legal jeopardy.
FTC rules a brick must really be a brick
A brick by any other name is not a brick, says the Federal Trade Commission.
Defining what can be legitimately sold or advertised as "brick" or "structural tile," FTC set down two new trade practice rules:
• It must be made primarily of clay or shale or a mixture of both.
• It must be fused together as a result of the application of heat.
Manufactured products which do not meet these requirements must be called by the name of the basic ingredient, i.e., "plaster brick," "coral brick," "concrete brick," FTC says.
LABOR:
Drive on right-to-work laws would threaten building
Union labor is quietly getting ready for a 1957 drive to kill with one blow the right-to-work laws of 18 states.
The method: persuade Congress to repeal Sec. 14b of the Taft-Hartley act which allows states to prohibit union shops by state law. Taft-Hartley, itself, does not ban union shop agreements.
Home building's stake in the matter is big. Right-to-work laws have been a stumbling block to union organizing efforts in all the states which have them. Builders in these state-and 15 other states which have similar laws under consideration fear that repeal of Sec. 14b would be the signal for an all-out drive to organize the home building industry everywhere. It is now about half open-shop.
Labor's strategy was mapped after a recent Supreme Court decision involving Nebraska's right to work constitutional amendment and statute. The decision plainly set forth the high court's feeling that federal law allowing a union shop prevails over any conflicting state law.
The case in point involved the Railway Labor Act, not Taft-Hartley. Employees of the Union Pacific, fired because they did not join the union, filed suit claiming that the Nebraska right-to-work law gave them the right to hold their jobs without union membership despite a union shop contract. Local and state courts ruled in their favor but the US court overruled both.
Labor is now confident that if Sec. 14b can be killed in a revision of Taft-Hartley next year, union shops will be legal everywhere.
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