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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wagner Labor Relations Act, he last week stole a march on the New Deal by proposing three amendments: 1) to authorize employers as well as unions to demand labor elections; 2) to require that collective bargaining agreements be set down in writing and, in case a union fails to live up to a contract, to deprive it of its right of employe representation; 3) to establish a fair practice code for Labor just as there is now such a code for employers. Chief importance of these proposals was as a goad to the New Deal majority, but important for itself...
...just a misdemeanor. Last week in Philadelphia in the first Sit-Down ruling from the Federal bench, the Circuit Court of Appeals declared that sit-downers in a local hosiery mill were not only guilty of such crimes as forcible entry and forcible detainer but had violated the Wagner Act and the Sherman Anti-Trust Act...
...Underlying this case is the question of whether a few lawless individuals ignoring and condemning the Wagner Act and in defiance of all law and order, and in ruthless disregard of the rights of others, should be permitted, by assuming the name of a union, to deprive all others of their means of livelihood and compel them to contribute of their earnings to self-styled leaders. A few 'sit-downers' are keeping 2,500 persons, who were entirely satisfied with their positions, from working and from earning an honest living for themselves and their families. If an employer...
Maintaining that the Apex sit-down was "in fact not a strike." the Court continued: "Not even counsel for the defendants condoned their lawless, criminal conduct in this case, but in open court condemned it." Attorneys for the sit-downers contended that "however unlawful their acts were, they were incidental, only a means to an end," and therefore did not constitute a conspiracy in restraint of interstate commerce. Said the Court: "This argument overlooks the fact that a strike if lawfully conducted is in itself lawful and its lawfulness now has statutory recognition. There could be no conspiracy under...
...keeping with the vastly enlarged powers and responsibilities it conferred on the governors of the Federal Reserve Board, the Banking Act of 1935 required them to submit with their annual report a record of all actions on matters of policy...