Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week ordered an election by crafts, an A. F. of L. victory. In several other cases the Board has ordered plantwide elections, which, in effect, deprive the craft unionists of their right to select their own bargaining representatives. And A. F. of L. would like to see the Wagner Act amended to read like the Railway Labor Act, which provides for bargaining by craft or class of employes...
...legal adviser, Milwaukee's Joseph A. Padway, declared that A. F. of L. was willing to await the outcome of the pending Allis-Chalmers test case to see whether or not the Wagner Act was to be "circumvented, perverted and turned into an instrument of propaganda for the C. I. O. "But if the decision was against craft unionism and unless the law was "speedily" amended, he warned, then there would be only one thing left to do: repeal...
First important act of the U. S. Supreme Court's 1937-38 session was, as anticipated, to dispose of the petition by Lawyer Albert Levitt, that Associate Justice Hugo LaFayette Black be required to prove his eligibility (TIME, Oct. 11). Also as anticipated, the petition was denied. Said solemn Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes last week...
...with promises to pay every citizen a monthly "dividend" of $25 (TIME, Sept. 2, 1935 et seq.). The first bill would force Alberta newspapers to give as much as one full page to presentation of the Government's views verbatim at any time upon demand, is entitled An Act Ensuring Publication of Accurate News and Information. The second would arbitrarily increase taxation of Alberta banks $2,000,000 per annum, and the third makes this possible by classifying "banks" as "credit institutions," thus making them liable to measures which under Dominion law could not be applied to them...
Obvious purpose of the three bills is to evade the North America Act, Canada's Constitution, and make Premier Aberhart the Dictator of Alberta. There were enough debt ridden farmers and pious adherents of his prophetic Bible Institute in Alberta so that last week even enemies of "Bible Bill" were afraid that if forced to go to the polls he might win again...