Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Daily Mirror's leader-writer: "What is clearly missing at the Lord Chamberlain's office is a share of that sense of humour which is Britain's priceless national possession. . . . Abolish the comedian, the cartoonist (and even the leader-writer) and there would soon be an Act of Parliament to restore them...
...industrial relations committee, drawing up suggestions for a new federal labor policy. Some committee members, led by Chrysler Corp.'s finance chairman, B. E. Hutchinson, and the Michigan Manufacturers Association's hard-bitten general manager, John R. Lovett, were all for demanding quick repeal of the Wagner Act. But to committee chairman Clarence B. Randall, vice president of Inland Steel Co., plumping for outright repeal seemed just the sort of thing that had given N.A.M. a bad name in the past. N.A.M., said Randall, should be content to outline broad objectives, let Congress determine how to achieve them...
...employers be protected against jurisdictional and sympathy strikes. Labor leaders in their demagogic terminology might still call this "reactionary." But compared with how most Americans were feeling about big labor leaders this was moderate and conciliatory. In effect, NAMsters thought that if the scales were better balanced, the Wagner Act could work out to the advantage of business also...
Opening the Door. The trouble started when employes, encouraged by John L. Lewis' portal-to-portal agreement with coal operators, sued Michigan's small Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. for portal-to-portal pay under the 1938 Wages & Hours Act...
...portal-to-portal work. What ran up the liability of companies was the fact that 1) portal-to-portal time was added to the eight-hour working day, and so called for time-and-a-half pay and 2) employes could sue for double wages under the Wages & Hours Act. In short, companies found themselves faced with paying triple damages...