Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three objectives are: 1) minimum hourly wages; 2) maximum weekly hours of work; 3) prohibition of strikebreaking, labor espionage, child labor. To achieve these objectives the Act creates a five-man Labor Standards Board named by the President with Senate confirmation. Future Board members are to be paid $10,000 a year, serve five-year terms and will have power to fix and vary minimum wages and maximum hours of U. S. labor (except farm labor) subject only to top limits of 80? per hour and $1,200 per year per worker. To disobey the Act or rulings...
...Hampshire's Senator Bridges, who blew his horn on behalf of the U. S. mails, blew again with the suggestion that the child labor provisions be removed from the Act and submitted to Congress separately on their own merits. Columnist Hugh S. Johnson, former NRA boss, asked belligerently: "Why did both Mr. Lewis and Mr. Green seek modifications? . . . Because it threatens the very existence of unionism. Because it is utterly Fascistic...
...week's end the Act was denounced from within the committee itself. Indiana's Democratic Representative Glenn Griswold criticized the wage-fixing provisions as "far more riotous than the NIRA." Nor would friends of Secretary of State Hull's reciprocal trade treaties add peace to the scene at the bland suggestion of the Act's coauthor, Representative William Patrick ("Billy") Connery Jr. of Massachusetts. He suggested that the Labor Standards Board would be given permissive authority to increase import duties if increased U. S. labor costs led to threat of destructive foreign competition...
...three big independent steel companies - Republic, Youngstown, Inland-the basic law which is supposed to forestall strikes was finally invoked. Van A. Bittner, regional director of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, formally accused Inland Steel Co. before the Labor Board of "unfair labor practices" under the Wagner Labor Relations Act. Thus, after 70,000 men had been out of work for three weeks, the one legal question at the bottom of the strike was belatedly raised...
Under the Wagner Labor Act employers have to bargain collectively, but do they have to sign written contracts? The three steel companies asserted their willingness to bargain collectively, but refused to sign anything because, they said, a contract would be followed by demands for the closed shop and the check-off of union dues. To the unions this was just a quibble. Pickets in Cleveland last week carried placards chiding the companies for refusing to buy ink. Settlement of this unsettled question may affect many a future labor crisis...