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Railroad Labor Board. The President advocated the Board's continuance until a better means of labor adjustment could be found. A bill to abolish the Board is before the House and may pass...
...vote of 194 to 181 withdrew from Committee the Barkley Bill (to abolish the Railroad Labor Board) and brought it up for consideration. A combination of Democrats and Republican insurgents brought about this action which was made possible by the changes in the rules which they forced through at the beginning of this session (TIME...
...evils could become manifest it was checked by the factory and labor legislation of the early nineteenth century. When Mr. Mackay declares that "we must change our present tendencies and get back to the public policies of our fathers" he runs the danger of advocating what he proposes to abolish...
...capers of "Magnavox" have so far resulted in the introduction of 13 bills. Not one of them relates to the farmers whose salvation he proposed to achieve.' Eight of them are for personal claims or pensions for voters in his state. Typical of the others is his bill to abolish capital punishment in the District of Columbia...
...revolutionize British Army discipline. A little group of "conshies," pacifists and Communists proposed revolutionary amendments to the Army and Air Force appropriation bills. Stephen Walsh, Secretary of War, promised that the Army Council would investigate all the questions raised. The amendments were then snowed under: 1) Proposal to abolish the death penalty for desertion, cowardice and similar offenses in war time, by a vote of 239 to 120; 2) Proposal to give a condemned soldier right of appeal to a civil court, by a vote of 193 to 120; 2) Proposal that a holdier, upon enlistment, may choose to refuse...