Abstract

Editorials

From the Presidential hat another rabbit has emerged. The automobile strike has been called off. Where no compromise seemed possible to devise, the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt found one that was sufficiently convincing to send executives back to their desks and to keep laborers on the assembly line. Never were the terms of a labor conflict more clearly defined than in the case of the automobile industry. The workers had been promised by law and under the code an opportunity to organize freely and to bargain through their organizations. When the employers denied them these guaranteed rights they threatened to strike. When the employers insisted that the company unions provided the only legitimate form of employee representation, the organized workers offered to test this claim by a vote.