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"The fete of the world sits on this rag" NOTE: Paste this editorial in your hat. Re-read it a$ you atari to shiver the next time John L. Lewis cuts off the nation's coal supply. uLabor monopoly" will mean much more to you then. But if you are worried enough you will get after your Congressman to do hie part now -- be/ore - the ehivering- atari*. ANCIENT GIANT produced 600 hp at 26J/a rpm on 66-pal eteam, 27 In. vacuum it * * Walking-Beam Engine EARLY-MODEl INDICATOR used for flrat diagram* on walking-beam engine INDICATOR DIAGRAMS shew engine above produced about 260 Ihp, each end Some oi.D-iiMF.ns still have a fond momory of the power machinery lhat gave America iu induatrial alort. Judged by today's etandarda those early steam engines present a weird and unwieldly sight, but they produced many thousands of horsepower before their successors nudged them out completely. Not the least of these old engines is the long since retired walking-beam en gine, shown above. It wos designed es pecially (or the Plymouth Cordage Co, North Plymouth, Mass., by E D Leavitt, consulting engineer of Cambridge, Mass. Harrison Loring, City Point works, Bos ton, Mass., built and installed it in 1667. Improved Valve Gear. When installed the engine was equipped with slidevalve gear similar to the Green gear. Both the main cylinder and valve gear operated vertically. In 1675, the Sar gent Corliss Engine Works of Provi dence, R. 1., replaced the original valve gear and cylinder. The cylinder shown is fitted with the "crab-dam" type valve gear for operating the corliss valves. The cylindrical pipe behind the A frame feeds exhaust steam to jet-type condenser below the Boor. The double set of long rods on each tide of center post of the A frame operates condenser pumps from the walking beam. Con denser-pump valves were flap-type rub ber valves fastened on one side. Sturdy Oldster. Method of holding the hub-end of spokes in their seats is shown in the photo, thol is, a tapered key is driven through each spoke. A pin holds the key in place. Flywheel is a wooden toothed gear. Teeth are wooden blocks keyed into openings cast in the flywheel rim. Uuttends o( teeth can be seen on inside of rim. This gear meshed with a cast-iron pinion on the jackshaft Rope drive transmitted power from this shaft to the mill. Indicator-card diagrams 1 and 2 were taken on this engine shortly alter it was installed with the ancient-model steamengine indicator, shown above. No in dicated horsepower is available from these diagrams. Diagram 3 was taken with a later design indicator after the original valve gear wos replaced with corlUs valves. This card indicates about 260 hp on the lower end, which ehowt this "mountain of iron" produced about 500 hp at 26% rpm. The cards short that ateam pressure varied from 29 to 35 psi, with 27 in. of vacuum. 134) POWER January 1946 uThe fate of the world sits on this rug.** The men on the rug: John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, who made the remark; Benjamin Fairless, President, United States Steel Corporation; George M. Humphrey, Chairman, Pitts burgh Consolidation Coal Company; Harry M. Moses, President, H. C. Frick Coke Company; Charles O'Neill, President, United Eastern Coal Sales Corporation; the late John O'Leary, International Vice President of the United Mine Workers; and John Owens, President, District No. 6 United Mine Workers. The place; Room 800, Carlton Hotel, Washington, D.C. The time; Last July during the "negotiation" of a new soft coal contract The outcome: Another whopping Increase In wages and the price of coal, another hike in the cost of living, and a "contract'' which binds the United Mine Workers only as long as they are "willing and able to work." Mr. Lewis was right The fate of the world did sit on the rug. In fact it sat at Mr. Lewis' feet for, as editorial will explain and as the outcome shows, his power over coal is absolute. Without coal modem Industrial civilization collapses. Without Mr. Lewis' assent coal can not be He has the nation and, In the years 2947-48, the world at his mercy. The Taft-Hartloy Act, good as It is, does nothing to check this kind of monopoly. - JOHN L. LEWIS I The Taft-Hartley Act fails to protect the publle in many major particulars. Here are some of them. L Labor monopoly is promoted and protected by its continued exemption from the fedoral antitrust laws. Management has no such exemption and should not have. 2. Industry-wide bargaining, a kind of seconddegree monopoly, Is left virtually undisturbed. So is union-wide bargaining which extends the power of national unions far beyond a single Industry. 3. Featherbedding, the art of getting paid for doing nothing, is left largely Intact 4. The menace of having local utility strikes wreck the health and safety of a community is left un touched. Postponement and persuasion are the only instruments provided to deal with strikes that would wreck the nation. My purpose in citing these omissions from the Taft-Hartley Act is not to belittle the act or its framers. They did a most courageous and construc tive job. They made a real start toward restoring a workable balance In industrial relations In the United States, so far as the law can do 1L But they have not completed the Job. Among their omissions the two discussed in the next sections of this editorial stand out above all others. n The most serious Taft-Hartley shortcoming is its failure to deal with labor monopoly. Labor monopoly exists wherever a union "is so strong that bargaining becomes a sham and the union virtually dictates its own terms. If an employer or group of employers secures a monopoly or anything approaching a monopoly, pros ecution for violation of the federal antitrust laws