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' *$ is in order. That is as it should be, (or monopoly means death to economic and political freedom. To those employers who enguge in industry-wide bargaining because they like it the proper answ^ Hydrogen-Zeolite Treated Water But if a labor union secures complete monopoly control over an industry through control of its workers, that union remains above and beyond the antitrust laws. "The fate of the world sits on this is also quite clear. They (and the union involved) arc maintaining a private monopoly which Is oftengive to the public Interest. It should bo prevented by law. Dissolves Boiler, Superheater Scale rug." By that imperial attitude John L. Lewis fully J demonstrated how obsolete is tho notion that labor i unions are weak and, therefore, need exemption from the antitrust laws. Through the United Mine Workers, Mr. Lewis controls about 90% of the coal miners. (No company controls more than 5% of the nation's coal output) Wherever he sits he has at his feet the welfare of the wholo nation. Great International unions exercise a comparable measure of monopoly control In other basic Industries -- steel, transportation, and automobiles, for example. These labor monopolies can destroy the nation if they arc not themselves broken up..Witness the plight of France. There the Communists have found in the great labor monopolies an instrument for shaking the nation to its foundations. in The Taft-Hartley Act also leaves untouched in dustry-wide collective bargaining, which Is a IV Congress should finish the job of eliminating labor monopoly and industry-wide bargaining In the course of enacting the Taft-Hartley lev last spring the House acted to eliminate tho exemp tion of unions from the federal antitrust laws and to make Industry-wide bargaining Illegal. The Sen: ate, however, refused to go along. The principal reason advanced in the Senate for deferring action was that more knowledge Is re quired to legislate Intelligently. To get the needed information, a joint Congressional committee was created. It is standard Congressional practice to stall oft. tacklmg a difficult Job by creating a special con>J mitteo to study it The new joint committee is not likely to prove an exception to this rule--tmlen the voters loudly demand of Congress that it get et with its job of protecting the public interest In tW conduct of labor relations -- a job which is nowheri Rkmovisc scale ond iludge deposit! from boilers and accessories with 5% Inhibited sold is frequent |iroctice. and ,U advantage* had considerable publicity. Uninhibited 0.01 to 0.03% acid bos slso been found very effective in dissolving ond disintegrating odher* ing boiler deposits. Acid ol the latter strength, easily prepared by passing a normal water through hydrogen-zeolite softeners, Is not strong enough to make a substan- tlsl sitock bn boiler metol during the short cleaning period. Southern Cali* fornia Css Cd, butadiene div, Los Angeles, Calif., has used the effluent from such a softener for cleaning sep arately fired superhgatera and several boilers. lofNalng Procsts. When regenerated with sulphuric acid, hydrogen zeolite removes calcium, magnesium end so- * dium cstions from water, replacing theta with hydrogen. The softener efflu ent then contains hydrochloric, sul Preliminary experiment, using slightly acid water from an Ion exchanger for cleaning superheaters led to successful tests on hollers. Amount of salts in raw woter is controlling factor 1 THOMAS t 8 WEBB, Staff Engineer, Southern Cafif. Oar Co, Sutodiana Oiv* and JOSEPH D YODER. VktftttMtitt, Tht Paimatit Compeay kind of second-degree monopoly. When all or almost all of the employers in an industry get together with the union leaders to agree on wages and working conditions (that is colled in dustry-wide bargaining) they set up a monopoly control. It is a less concentrated monopoly than when the terms are dictated by either side, as Lewis dictates them in cooL But, nonetheless, competition is eliminated and monopoly control is established over wages, which ore by far the largest element in the cost of production. It follows that public regu lation of collective bargaining---which means the end of free unions and free management--is not far behind. Some employers defend industry-wide bargaining as their only defense against industry-wide unions. near done. > Helpful and effective os many of its provision* arc, the Taft-Hartley Act docs not face squared the central principle of Industrial relations In a free society. That principle Is this: Neither employers nor organized workers, teparatcly or in combination, shall exploit the public by establishing a monopoly. * Do not let your Congressmen go to sleep on the job of solving that problem or hide from it because of fear. The perfect solution may be hard to find.' But the problem can be largely solved by moklnj organized labor subject to tho federal antitrust law* just os management is now subject to them. If that problem goes by default your children and your, grandchildren will really know what slave labor means. 1 phuric and carbonic adds In proportion to the chlorides, sulphates and carbon ates In the raw water. Table L P 100, gives analyses of the raw water and effluent from (he hydrogen-zeolite soft ener used by (his plant The effluent has. a mineral oddity of 145 ppm in terms of calcium carbonate. This compares with an acidity of 50,000 ppm for a S% acid solution, commonly used with an inhibitor for boiler clean ing. Acidity from a hydrogen-zeolite softener remains constant for any given raw water to thtve ts no problem of mUing concentrated add with water. Cleaning Superheaters. First sppli. cation of hydrogen-zeolite treated water wta for cleaning n separately fired hairpin-type superheater, in October 1944. EFFLUENT FROM the hydrooen-zeoHte softener can be carried to the mud drum through a rubber hose tf rubber-lined piping la net readily available heater discharge was about 4.4. Table superheater tubes from the start to the II Indicates the rale at which solids end of a normal cleaning operation. As Other employers like it because it makes wages and hours uniform for their whole industry. For those employers who are forced Into industry* wide bargaining In self-defense the road to relief la clear. Congress owes it to them and to the public to free them from the necessity of dealing with a mo Up to tbot time there had been no es tablished practice for cleaning these units other than to use distilled water. Thlj is a slow and costly process. Fot the first job, water from the hy- rogen-zeolite softener was delivered .to toe superheater at a rote of 10 gpm for were picked up. Initial discharge from the outlet header was high in total sol ids and had a pH greater than 11. Aa washing progressed, total ' dissolved solids and pH decreased, an indication of cleaning progress. Present cleaning method is to pass indicated, ft requires over 2% hr to fill the superheater tubes et 22 gpm. After acid washing, each lube is rinse'd with city water at 40 psi for 2 or 3 min. tffeera of Ctoonlng. When new, the superheater-tube temperature for oormal operation was 740 to 750 F. After nopolistic union. The best way to do that is to approximate]], 45 hr. Woter entered the hydrogen-zeolite treated water through 5 months* operation scale or deposits in remove the exemption of labor unions from the federal antitrust laws. President, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, In*. wet header et a pH of 2.6, and cleann* continued until the pH ol super- SffS.'S.'Sl-l-" " " the superheaters at 22 gpm for 6 to 8 hr, or until pH of tho discharge is about 4.4. Diagram on p 101 shows to tal solids and pH of water leaving the creased the lube temperature to 760-790 F. After cleaning with hydrogen-zeolite water the overage temperature drops to 680-760 F; This is substantially lower TOTS IS THE ft4m or A SKRtBS 'Own . Jsttuary 1940 (35) 99