Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defining the issue, however, the board first agreed with the company that it was not compelled to reach an agreement, regardless of the circumstances: "If honest and sincere bargaining efforts fail to produce an understanding on the questions at issue, nothing in the act makes illegal the employer's failure to capitulate to the demands placed upon him." But that was not the question: "It is whether a refusal to embody, in a signed agreement, any understandings that may be reached, constitutes a failure to bargain collectively within the meaning of the act. In essence, the question is whether...
...would never sign an agreement with the "irresponsible, racketeering" C. I. O. unless forced to, seemed on its way to a final test. But three days after its Inland ruling, the NLRB gave Mr. Girdler something more immediate to worry about. In a bristling 60,000-word decision, the board held the $343,000,000 Republic Steel Corp., third largest in the nation, in flagrant violation of the act. Growing out of the strike last summer in Ohio they included: responsibility for causing the strike, open sponsorship of company unions, discriminatory discharges of union members, espionage, terrorization, incitement of violence...
...charges against Republic Steel simply alleged unfair labor practices. The union did not claim to represent a majority of the workers and the board said nothing about a contract. It ordered the corporation to stop interfering with self-organization of its workers, to disestablish its company unions, to offer reinstatement with back pay to all the estimated 5,000 strikers and to discharge other employes hired after the strike if necessary to make room for them, to post notices of compliance in the five plants affected for 60 days...
...Eagle Pencil Company of New York did not know that El Salvador was omitted from a world map which it was including in children's pencil boxes until the United Press called its attention to the protest made by the National Tourist Board of El Salvador to the Salvadorean Minister in Washington. The Eagle Pencil Company regrets this incident which was entirely unintentional on its part. It did not prepare or print the map in question but bought the same from a company of high standing in the printing trade. The error will be corrected in the future...
Legion post petitioned the Board of Education to start a junior R. O. T. C. unit in Kenosha High School. A group of ministers quickly objected. Soon mass meetings and fierce arguments were in full swing. Advocates of R. O. T. C. claimed it developed character and physical fitness, its opponents that it bred militarism. The Legion and some civic & fraternal organizations lined up behind R. O. T. C., labor unions and churches lined up against it. The Board of Education lined up on the fence, finally asked the City Council to hold a city-wide referendum...