Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Avowed purpose of the Act is to see that workers who wish to bargain collectively with their employer may do so through a union of their own choosing. To accomplish this, the Act: 1) forbids employers to interfere in any way with the workers' choice, even if the interference benefits a supposedly bona fide union, and 2) gives the administrators discretion to make sure that when a group of workers wants a union, they get the one preferred by a majority...
Labor did not expect employers to like this, but soon after the Wagner Act was passed a large section of U. S. Labor discovered that it did not like this either. For Labor does not always practice the kind of collective bargaining called...
...this technique a union representative on occasion may try to "organize" an employer before his workers are organized. If the employer is "sold" before his workers accept the same proposition, the resultant agreement may or may not meet the preferences of the employes concerned, therefore may violate the Wagner Act. Many a Federationist, raised in this concept of bargaining, resents any hint that it should be suspect...
...wrecking of the motor workers union would be a serious matter. John L. Lewis, locked in contest with A. F. of L. over the Wagner Act, jockeying for advantage in peace talks with the Federation and tied up in contract negotiations for his miners with soft-coal operators, did what he had done before: shipped his lieutenants, Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman, to the scene of disruption...
...nearly six months the U. S. public has put up with Federal wage-hour regulation in spite of the Wage & Hour Law. Administrator Elmer Frank Andrews has been able to get wide compliance mainly because: 1) he is a reasonable man; 2) the Act's demands are modest (25? an hour, 44 hours a week); 3) the penalties are so stiff that Business had to try to conform to a miserably written statute. Last week Mr. Andrews, vexed just as much as Business by the bungled law, asked Congress to cure the worst defects. His chief proposals...