Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crew swiftly returned to duty. Meantime in Washington Chairman Kennedy, stealing a phrase from his boss, declared: "The Maritime Commission takes the position that the action of the crew is unlawful. It also takes the position that in this particular case such an act constitutes a strike against the Government. Neither situation can be tolerated...
...price. By 1929 the union had gained A. F. of L. Federal charters, but recognition from Pullman was not forthcoming. President Randolph carried his case to the old Board of Mediation, to the Interstate Commerce Commission, to a Federal Court. First success came in 1934 when the Railway Labor Act was amended, outlawing company unions, guaranteeing collective bargaining and-at the behest of President Randolph-bringing porters within the scope of the law. Membership jumped, and the next year when the National Mediation Board held an election the Brotherhood beat a reorganized company union, 6,000 to 1,400. Subsequent...
...resounding decision that put it in direct conflict with the Federal bench, the U. S. Labor Board last fortnight held National Electric Products Corp. in Ambridge, Pa. guilty of unfair labor practices under the Wagner Act. A Federal district court had held that a contract by which the corporation granted a closed shop to an A. F. of L. union was valid and must be obeyed. The Board flatly declared the contract was "void and of no effect" and must be ignored (TIME, Sept. 13). Last week the Board carried the controversy a step farther only to make a monkey...
...election was thrown back into the lap cf the Labor Board. The broader question of the case -whether an employer should obey the Board or the bench when their orders conflict-also remained to be settled in what may well be another Supreme Court test of the Wagner Act...
...that is, how Dr. Koo and Dr. Quo could best put their case. The flattered correspondents and the Chinese diplomats soon agreed, among other things, that China must not accuse Japan of making "war" since such an accusation might well force President Roosevelt to invoke the Neutrality Act, and from this China would suffer far more than Japan. By the time the Assembly actually met this week, Dr. Koo and Dr. Quo had not only a "good press" but almost a cheering section behind them. They promptly invoked against Japan three articles of the League Covenant: 1) famed Article...