Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the provision for a single civil service administrator to replace the present commission was one of the questionable virtues of the now deceased reorganization bill, the extension of the merit system "upward, outward, and downward" was widely hailed as a reform of revolutionary character, and its defeat was the...
He attacked also the practice of uniform bidding on government contracts and urged that a "commission of limited discretionary powers whose objectives are more extensive and more clearly defined than those of the Federal Trade Commission" be established to lay down carefully defined rules for business to follow in these...
The contract, which presupposed a 51 percent A. F. of L. majority, in the dining halls and kitchens, was signed by the University without any attempt being made to prove the existence of this majority. The majority was not certified, as is usually the case, by the State Labor Relations...
The contract, signed in February, went unchallenged until March 30. At that time the so-called "inside" union, of Harvard Employees Representatives Association, filed a petition with the Commission for certification of a majority in six departments, one of these being the dining-hall and kitchen group.
The election to determine who has the majority will be held as soon as possible, and the Commission's decision will be handed down within the month. The other departments in which the "inside" union claims a majority are the caretakers, the H. A. A., the printers and binders, the...