Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason which the Board had given for declaring the contract void was that its "precipitate granting" smacked of trickery since the corporation well knew that the A. F. of L. union "did not represent the free choice of a majority of its employes." Therefore the Board ordered a plant election. Last week it was held. Result: 780-to-675 in favor...
Although the company had apparently judged the temper of its workers more correctly than the Board, the case was not ended, for the ballots of 155 clerks and maintenance men were challenged by both A. F. of L. and C.I.O., and the 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...
...budget by cutting his own salary as Premier from $12,000 to $10,000, cut his Cabinet Members from $10,000 to $8,000. Further slashing reduced Ontario Government salaries all along the line, cuts in some cases as much as 50% being carried into the Ontario Liquor Board and Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission. This last claims to be "the capitalist world's largest public purveyor of power," serving nearly half a million Ontario families at reputedly "the world's lowest electric rates"-about 9? per kilowatt hour in Ottawa...
...Sounding Board for Premier Hepburn is a new and potent force in Canadian journalism, launched with the money of bleak, eccentric William Henry Wright, onetime butcher, soldier and prospector, today credited with having Canada's largest annual income ($6,000,000). This comes from the famed Wright-Hargreaves Mine, largely developed by Old Prospector Wright, who lives 90 miles north of Toronto in the small town of Barrie...
...Division of Horse Racing, headed by a former State Senator named Francis J. Kiernan, began hectoring Narragansett. Last month a suitable incident was provided when State Racing Steward James Doorley attempted to enforce a minor Division ruling concerning the posting of winning horses on the track's electric board. Hot-tempered Owner O'Haca not only defied the order but gave Doorley a bawling out. Thereupon the Racing Division, charging that Steward Doorley had been "intimidated," amazingly ordered the Narragansett Association, in which Mr. O'Hara is a majority stockholder, to oust Mr. O'Hara from...