THI ANCHOIt Thu.... M.' t. 1957
The Yardstick
Manufacturers i,n Strange Spot on Labor Measure
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Labor Leader Named For Murray Award
Catholic~
Colleges to Expend 247.Million in '-hree Years
MILWAUiCEE (NC> - One hundred and forty-five Catholic colleges and universities which have development programs now und~rway will spend an esti mated $227,500,000 by 1960 readying themselves for future enrollment booms. This was disclosed by Father Edward J. Kammer, C.M., who conducted a survey under the auspices .of the college and uni versity department of the Na tional Catholic Educational As sociation, which held its 54th annual convention here. With expanded facilities, the 145 institutions estimate they will be able to enroll an addition al 111,940 undergraduate stu-
NEW YORK (NCl - George Meany. AFL-CIO president, has On April 25 President Eisenhower, after .conferring been voted the 1957 Philip Mur iri Augusta, Georgia with Secretary of Labor Mitchell, ray Award of the National Asso publicly urged speedy CongTessional action on long ciation for the Advancement of pending Administration proposalS to regulate union health Colored People Legal Defense and Educational' Fund, Inc. . and welfare funds. While Arthur B. Spingarn, fund pres he did not mention any spe for the Federal Government to' cific bill by name, the Presi reg u I ate union-administred ident, said: "Mr, Meany was the but the regulation of com,. unanimous choice by the Philip dent was undoubtedly refer funds, pany-administered funds should Murray Award Committee for the ring-, among other proposals, to be lett to the states. the so-called Ives Bill, introgreat contribution he has made. Illogical and Indefensible As of thfs writing, the NAM as an individual and as president has confined its opposition to the of the united labor movement, in the struggle to achieve equality ';.6 Ives of New Douglas b111, presumably for poli and justice for all Americans." tical reasons. The fact is, how A; York, ever. that the Ives b111 as T his bill, ;~1 introduced by previously noted - would also . ·",1 De m 0 cratlc apply to companY-8,dministered Senatol' Paul funds. Sooner or later, therefore. spokesmen for the NAM will ':': ""'~'" Douglas of 11 .,,, ""' Unols, would probably have to take a vigorous stand~gainst the Administration, require all em ployee welfare which is known to be in favor funds to register and to file of the Ives proposal. We have no desire to pick a periodic financial reports with a Government agency. Both bills quarrel with the National Asso would apply to company - as ciation of Manufacturers, but it well as union - administered must be said in all honesty that NAM's opposition to the Douglas funds. It Is estimated that ap proximately 90 pel' cent of all Ives proposals Is illogical .and employee benefit plans are of the indefensible. The NAM has a formel' type. Only 10 per cent are long history of opposing labor legislation and social welfare administered by unions. . legislation in the name of free AFL-CIO Support enterprise. The AFL-CIO is fully prepared The NAM is entitled to its own to support either the Ives 01' the opinion about the meaning of Douglas bill. "We have long free enterprise and its applica favored legislation even more tion in the field of labor and sweeping than the pending Ad social welfare legislation. Never ministration bill," AFL-CIO Pre the less the NAM should not ex Illdent· George Meany declared pect to be ta.ken seriously when Immediately aft e l' President it arbitrarily changes the mean Eisenhower's statement had been ing of free enterprise to suit itl released to the press. own convenience or its own par "These health and welfare ticular purposes. That is to say. plans," Mr. Meany continued. if it is a violation of the princi "whethel' operated by unions, by ples of free enterprise for the management, or both jointly are Federal Government to regulate funds held in trust for the bene company - administered welfare fit of workers and should be plans, then it is also reprehensi completely safeguarded from any ble for the Federal Government and all cON'uptlon and misman to regulate uniQjl-adminlstered agement:' funds. The NAM cannot have it Mr. Meany was speaking not both ways. only for himself, as an indiVidual. Everything to Lose but for the majority of his as In a sense this is probably Iloclates In the AFL-CIO. More much ado about nothing, for the over, he has alreadY amply chances are that the majority ot demonstrated that he was not responsible businessmen in the talking merely for public con United States will support the sumption. If there is any linger Ives bill or an adequate substi Ing doubt about his sincerity. tute, regardless of NAM's stand. walt until the Senate Labol" Com Let's hope so, for the business mittee starts its hearings on the community in the United State, Ives and Douglas bills. At that has everything to lose and noth time Mr. Meany and many of ing to gain by standing in the Above:-Girls' nylon dresa en his associates in the labor move riched with handsome tl'1m of way of adequate Federal regula ment will undoubtedly throw the tion of employee benefit plans. Alencon lace, Ribbon belt wltb white flowers. Full sl1p and tull weight of their support be Under ordinary circumstance, extra ruffle petticoat. puff hind these proposals. If they we would hesitate to recommend sleeves, Sizes T to 12 suggest amendments· to the two that the b,usinessmen of the bl1ls, these amendments will be United States '8tssoclate them designed to strengthen rather than weaken the hand of the selves from the position taken by Third Floor an organization to which they Federal Government in the regu lation of employee welfare plans. belong. However. at a time when the rank-and-file of certain Unfair to Douglas unions are being urged on every Right I - Sub-Teener', halt Ironically, however, the Na side to break with their leaderll size dress with sissy rutne tional Association of Manufac trimmed front. Turn-back turers - unless it has a change in the interest of recent trade cuffs with rhinestone button of heart between now and the unionism, it would seem to be In trim. Full rayon taffeta slip. order to make a similar request time of the Senate hearings Sizes 10Y:I to 14~ will probably testify against the of American businessmen tn the case of the NAM's opposition to Ives and Douglas bills and will do everything it possibly can to the Douglas-Ives proposals. Third Floor. defeat them. The NAM has al ready billSted the Douglas bl11 as a "sleeper," "shreWdly conceived" by Senator Douglas as an attack on "the healthy parts of Ameri can Industry's whole structure • Girls' lace and of employee benefits:' flower trimmed This Is very unfair to Senator
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By Msgr. George G. Higgins
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dent.s by 1965, assuming an in crease of 4,100 teachers. a11d an additional 140,139 students by .1970 - if they can get about 5,500 more faculty members. At present, said Father Kam mer, the 145 institutions emoll about 115,800 students, meaning that by 1965 they will be just short of doubling total enroll ment and by 1970 wlU have more than doubled it. He said 'that 134 of the colleges and' universities reported that they could take an additional 51,593 students right now. but to do this they would need 1,654 faculty members and they can't get these needed' teachers.
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