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Also published last week was a list of nine proposed A. F. of L. changes in the Wagner Act. Significantly included were an amendment to curtail NLRB's power to invalidate existing contracts, another to require NLRB to give all interested parties (including unions) due notice of intention to investigate a contract. NLRB's retort (in its annual report): ". . . In most of such cases the beneficiary of the employer's illegal acts also secures a collective agreement and is naturally loath to recognize the board's duty to compel the employer to forego the fruits...
Here Mr. Wallace and his highly paid editor-condensers will continue to work out their plans to meet any emergency that may arise to curtail the Digest's diet-plans which include printing original articles along with advice to consumers on advertised products. Already the Digest is growing much of its roughage in its own back yard...
...councilmen recommended that the law be amended so as "to curtail the unlawful assumption of broad powers by the board, also to curtail unlimited discretion in construing and administering the Act, and to make specific the jurisdictional limits of the Board." Specifically: to restrict or abolish NLRB's power to void contracts between employers and unions, require NLRB to recognize craft lines in designating bargaining units, forbid it to sanction independent or "company" unions, reduce its quasi-judicial powers...
President Conant has allocated $5000 from University funds to fight the menace of forest fires in Petersham, site of the Harvard Forest, and to curtail them if they develop. This offer has been given to Patrick J. Moynihan, chairman of the Massachusetts emergency committee, by Ward Shepard '10, Director of the Forest and head of the special committee to guard against forest fires...
...home last week, Japan pulled her belt in another notch, prepared for further strain., Additional sections of the National Mobilization act, which places the nation on war footing, were invoked, to ration war essentials, curtail imports except war materials, control commodity prices. New War Minister Seishiro Itagaki gloomily admitted: "The war will continue a long time. Chiang Kai-shek may attempt to continue hostilities throughout his lifetime and as long as Chiang continues, Japan must continue. Consequently, it is necessary that the Japanese resolve to continue fighting at least ten years." The Imperial Council will meet soon for the sixth...