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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...endowed us with great potential powers. We have neglected those powers and mistakenly waited for their Source to act for us. However, we are wholly dependent on ourselves. Ours is not to pray but to act...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 28, 1947 | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...page measure struck in three directions: at the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act, at the Norris-LaGuardia (anti-injunction) Act, at Communist influence in trade unions. Its chief points (see box) were long, strong and sharp. They were nailed down by stern rules and broad new definitions. The only kind of "compulsory unionism" the bill permitted was the union shop,* and then only if a majority of the workers wanted it and the employer himself had no objection. The bill would safeguard both workers' and employers' rights to speak out against unions. It would deprive workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Challenge | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

Against Tyranny. The House's avowed aim was to bring an end to "widespread industrial strife." That had also been the avowed aim of Congress in 1935, when it passed the Wagner Act. But the 80th Congress now thought that the hard facts of industrial strife had demonstrated the fallacy in congressional thinking twelve years ago. From an annual average of 753 strikes involving 297,000 workers before the NRA, precursor of the Wagner Act, the strike chart had climbed to 4,985 strikes involving 4,650,000 workers in 1946. Annual average of man-days lost before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Challenge | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

Students will get a chance to act in at least one of the six proposed productions or receive instruction in directing from the summer theater head, Eldon Winkler, who will be taking time off from his chores as director of the Wellesley Barnswallows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley 'Swallows Seek Summer Roost | 4/24/1947 | See Source »

Final action of the petition now rests with the faculty, who last Friday night failed to act when the evidence of the group's independence from national organization control was still incomplete...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Plans Extensive GE Program Poll | 4/22/1947 | See Source »

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