Excerpt from Investigation of Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, Vol. 42: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, Eighty-Fifth Congress, Second Session The chairman. Today the committee Opens a hearing into the activities and practices of the Sheet Metal Workers International As sociation in the Chicago, Ill., area. One of the most insidious of union practices occurs when a closely knit union group exacts tribute from employers for the privilege of operating, and from workers for the privilege of working. This ap pears to be one of the elements of the case we shall investigate in this series of hearings. Another destructive practice occurs when unions or managements, or both, acting in collusion, set out to regulate prices or to prearrange the order and the amounts of bids which are supposed to be competi tive and secret on various types of building projects. Such practices are extremely detrimental to the general public. They create artificial high prices, prices which must necessarily come out of the pockets of the unsuspecting consumer. This element of la bor-management improper activities will also be studied during the current hearings. We hear a great deal about labor peace. Such peace gives stabil ity to our economy, continuity Of output, and production. Such peace, however, must be based on mutual understanding between labor and management - ou the faithful execution of contracts and the good faith settlement of union-company grievances and differences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.