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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago, such avowed foes of the Act as Nebraska's Senator Edward R. Burke, Michigan's Representative Clare Hoffman, the National Association of Manufacturers could get nowhere toward amendment. Since then A. F. of L.'s leadership has plumped for change. Now Clare Hoffman approvingly quotes A. F. of L. to the considerable embarrassment of Bill Green, who strenuously opposes even more drastic alterations proposed by Hoffman, Burke, N. A. M., the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. John Lewis' C. I. O. resists any change, on the ground that once the Wagner Act is opened...
...regarded this law as the Magna Charta of Labor. We so regard it now. That is why we are so deeply disappointed by the failure of the National Labor Relations Board to administer this law satisfactorily. . . . We believe the Act, properly administered under these amendments, will promote industrial peace...
...Elbert D. Thomas, chairman of the Senate Education & Labor Committee. "I am opposed to revision in any way that will interfere with the proper working out of this law," Elbert Thomas had said. Convinced that A. F. of L. revision would seriously interfere, he proposed to save the Wagner Act by postponing hearings on their proposals. His excuse: since amendment is a prime issue between A. F. of L. and C. I. O., hearings should be delayed for the duration of Franklin Roosevelt's negotiations for Labor Peace. Twice he succeeded. Last week, noting that the negotiations seemed hopelessly...
First witness: New York's Senator Robert F. Wagner, daddy of the Act. Whether he will stand pat, publicly voice a belief that NLRB has gone astray but that the statute is as good as ever or offer some compromise amendments of his own, Bob Wagner refused to say. Last week the Administration, which generally looks to Bob Wagner for advice on Labor matters, significantly omitted the Wagner Act amendment from its list of ten "preferred" items on the Senate calendar...
Bargaining Technique. A majority (66%) of the U. S. people as polled by Gallup think the Wagner Act needs mending. Yet few of them understand why A. F. of L.'s executive council, which William Green represents, should want to have its Magna Charta and change it too. The reason A. F. of L. is so angry with NLRB Chairman J. Warren Madden and his two Smiths (Edwin Seymour, Donald Wakefield) is in the Wagner Act itself...