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May 4, 1953
Trainman News
Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
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M. M. Lee, representing President Kennedy and the BRT, speaks at the seventh annual Kansas State College Labor-Management Roundtable in Manhattan, Kans., emphasizing responsible leadership in labor relations and the importance of free unions for democracy.
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Lee Addresses Kans. College Round Table
MANHATTAN, Kans. "Achieving responsible labor and management leadership is one of the important tasks facing our nation if we hope to escape the pitfalls and failures of the European countries."
That statement was made before the seventh annual Kansas State College Labor-Management Roundtable by M. M. Lee, manager Legal Aid Department, who represented President Kennedy and the BRT at the conference.
Responsible leadership is the first essential in the search for a solution in today's industrial labor relations, he said. Leadership can point the way to mutual understanding.
He discussed in particular the collective bargaining practices of train service employes.
"Labor unions, free of employer and government domination, have proved to be the strongest bulwark in defense of constitutional government and our free enterprise system," he said.
"It is a matter of record that the first official acts of the dictators of Italy and Germany were to destroy the free labor unions of those countries.
"A nation that permits its labor unions to be free, remains a free nation.
"Labor and management have the responsibility of developing leadership in the interest of good government and for their own self-preservation."
Other members of organized labor at the roundtable were W. E. VanVranken, president of the union at Beech Aircraft; Frank Fernback, National CIO associate director of research; Floyd Black, Kansas State Federation of Labor executive secretary.
Management was represented by J. H. Hatch, Union Wire & Rope Corp. vice-president, and former carman of El Paso & Southwestern RR; Murray Wilson, engineer from Salina; Fred Stein, Fred Stein Laboratories' president and Mayor of Atchison, Kans., whose father was a BRTer until his death; and J. E. Isaacs, assistant personnel manager, Beech Aircraft.
MANHATTAN, Kans. "Achieving responsible labor and management leadership is one of the important tasks facing our nation if we hope to escape the pitfalls and failures of the European countries."
That statement was made before the seventh annual Kansas State College Labor-Management Roundtable by M. M. Lee, manager Legal Aid Department, who represented President Kennedy and the BRT at the conference.
Responsible leadership is the first essential in the search for a solution in today's industrial labor relations, he said. Leadership can point the way to mutual understanding.
He discussed in particular the collective bargaining practices of train service employes.
"Labor unions, free of employer and government domination, have proved to be the strongest bulwark in defense of constitutional government and our free enterprise system," he said.
"It is a matter of record that the first official acts of the dictators of Italy and Germany were to destroy the free labor unions of those countries.
"A nation that permits its labor unions to be free, remains a free nation.
"Labor and management have the responsibility of developing leadership in the interest of good government and for their own self-preservation."
Other members of organized labor at the roundtable were W. E. VanVranken, president of the union at Beech Aircraft; Frank Fernback, National CIO associate director of research; Floyd Black, Kansas State Federation of Labor executive secretary.
Management was represented by J. H. Hatch, Union Wire & Rope Corp. vice-president, and former carman of El Paso & Southwestern RR; Murray Wilson, engineer from Salina; Fred Stein, Fred Stein Laboratories' president and Mayor of Atchison, Kans., whose father was a BRTer until his death; and J. E. Isaacs, assistant personnel manager, Beech Aircraft.
What sub-type of article is it?
Historical Event
What themes does it cover?
Moral Virtue
Justice
What keywords are associated?
Labor Management
Roundtable
Leadership
Unions
Collective Bargaining
Democracy
What entities or persons were involved?
M. M. Lee
President Kennedy
W. E. Vanvranken
Frank Fernback
Floyd Black
J. H. Hatch
Murray Wilson
Fred Stein
J. E. Isaacs
Where did it happen?
Manhattan, Kans.
Story Details
Key Persons
M. M. Lee
President Kennedy
W. E. Vanvranken
Frank Fernback
Floyd Black
J. H. Hatch
Murray Wilson
Fred Stein
J. E. Isaacs
Location
Manhattan, Kans.
Story Details
M. M. Lee delivers a speech on the need for responsible leadership in labor and management to avoid European pitfalls, highlighting free unions' role in defending democracy and discussing collective bargaining in train services.