Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate had planned to set up an independent Fair Labor Standards Board. with quasi-judicial powers (like NLRB's) to halt the transit in interstate commerce of goods produced under conditions not conforming to the act. The House planned to empower the Labor Department to go into the States and see to it that goods for interstate commerce were legally produced. The House won, and the compromise bill's administrative provisions strongly reminded businessmen of NRA's myriad code authorities. Chief provisions of the bill...
...Hour Administrator, a $10,000 official in the Department of Labor, would begin to examine wages & hours in all industries in interstate commerce to see where and when minimum wages should be flexed up and minimum hours down, toward the 40-40 ratio. He would appoint up to 750 boards, representing Industry. Labor and the Consuming Public, to make these studies and give him recommendations. If the Administrator should not like the findings of any board, he could veto them, create another board. To collect pay awarded by the boards, employes could sue their employers in the Federal Courts. Liability...
...power to restrain unions, recent Federal legislation has treated U. S. District judges like problem children. In most labor disputes. Federal injunctions are forbidden by the Norris-LaGuardia Act. The Wagner Act routes , appeals from NLRB decisions direct to U. S. Circuit Courts, forbids lower courts to enjoin the Board, in general assumes that the less District judges have to say about labor cases the better...
Among the members of the board of trustees of the foundation are President Lowell; Manley O. Hudson, former Bemis professor of International Law and now judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice; Bruce C. Hopper associate professor of Government; and James P. Baxter 3rd, president of Williams College...
Fortnight ago, after a prolonged proxy battle in which neither side got a clear-cut quorum, the two generals made a deal: C. & O.'s board was increased from nine to eleven members to include three Guaranty lieutenants, John Hollister, John Dickinson and Earle Bailie, the latter to rill a vacancy. Technically, this was a compromise; but Robert Young considered it a victory, for he still had about half the stockholders and most of the directors in his camp.*Last week in Cleveland the new board re-elected Mr. Young's C. & O. management, including President George Doswell...