Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past. Spawned during the sweaty struggles within the old-line A. F. of L. maritime unions, it is today one of the most successful "rank & file" movements in American labor history. Since fall, it has won 43 of the 50 maritime labor elections held by the National Labor Relations Board. Of some 20,000 votes cast, exactly 16,325 were cast for it in preference to A. F. of L.'s drowning International Seamen's Union and International Longshoremen's Association. Most convincing signs of the approach of the chair-warming stage in union development...
Having delighted Labor once, the Supreme Court went on to uphold the National Labor Relations Board unanimously in two cases. In both cases (involving Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines and Pacific Greyhound Lines) the issue was whether the Board could order an employer to withdraw recognition of a company union if there was no competing union in the field. Admitting that there might be situations in which such an action would not be warranted, the Court nonetheless concluded that in both cases the Board's action was an appropriate way to give effect to the policy...
...Their less lucky neighbors have made Oklahoma a No. 1 centre of easy money crusades, including the Townsend Movement, whose Cherokee-blooded onetime Vice President Gomer Smith Oklahoma last year elected to Congress. Last week it appeared, however, that some dishonest Oklahomans had found another bounty, the Social Security Board's old age assistance plan...
...Government matches the State's contribution and adds 5%, for administrative expenses. Some $10,000.000 of Federal money has poured into Oklahoma since the State got its program going in July 1936. When Oklahoma's indigent old reached the impressive total of 68,000 the Social Security Board began to investigate. A random check of the rolls in 46 of the State's 77 counties disclosed that $685,000 of the assistance money had gone to ineligibles, indicated that a complete State check would raise the total to $3,000,000. At this point the Board...
...public hearings before the Board last week blame for the State of Oklahoma's rolls appeared to rest on: 1) political subordinates, 2) Indians, 3) the possibility that Oklahoma's politicians had encouraged old folks to confuse their program with the Townsend plan. Whatever the cause, Oklahoma's oldsters had leaped onto the bandwagon with a vengeance. One pensioner, a physician, had just bought a new Ford for cash. A pensioned blacksmith owned his own shop, a car, two lots, owed no debts or back taxes. Of 47 ineligibles on the rolls in one county, 20 were...