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Union Busters Slapped. THE Wagner Labor Relations Act wag eyb- stantially reinforced in two more Su- preme Court rulings Monday. Both of them are timely since they hit directly against a number of methods employers have used recently in their efforts to circumscribe the Iaw of the land. First, the court slapped the employer who schemes to stall and delay certification of a union as a collective bargaining agent while he pulls strings to whittle down its majority among the workers through favor- itism, discharge or other such familiar methods. No matter what happens while the case is pending, the court ruled, the union retains its right to bargain for the workers. Only last week the War Labor Board Jnoted that employers are inereasingly chal- [lenging the rights of unions to bargain for Uworkers, fishing out all sorts of excuses obviously for no other purpose than to dis! turb labor relations stability to a point of provoking strikes.. The other ruling of the court slapped down an employer who, after recognizing a union, continued to enter into "individual contracts" with workers, in effect bribing them with temporary favoritism, if they would break with the union. This action was a logical follow-up of the recent ruling re- affirming a ban on "yellow dog" contracts. Such decisions are especially timely today in view of an inclination among some reac-. INDES tionary employers to shake themselves away from union contracts in preparation for their post-war plans. The earlier the law of the NOT REORDED land is put before such employers in specific APR 15 1S44 terms, as the court has done in a numberj. [of gecent cases, the more healthy it will be] Yoy abor-emplover, relations generally. This is a clipping fram. of the page DAILT JORKCR Date Clippar &t the Seat' of. 53APR 18 1944 Geverment