Word: denham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taft-Hartley law made sense when it set up the National Labor Relations Board to hear and judge unfair labor practices, and established an independent general counsel to round up and bring in the cases. But in practice, the pro-labor NLRB and its stubborn Republican counsel, Robert N. Denham, had wrangled from the first day they took office. Last week, after listening for months to organized labor's demands for Denham's head, Harry Truman politely asked him to place it on the chopping block...
...SOPHIE DENHAM Meringouin...
...reorganization proposals which would automatically become law unless either the House or Senate killed it by May 23. The plan, not recommended by the Hoover Commission, but dear to the heart of Mr. Truman, would abolish the office of general counsel of the NLRB, whose present occupant, Robert N. Denham, annoys the President and union labor. Taft argued that the plan was just a devious trick partly to nullify the Taft-Hartley Act. The Senate went along with Taft, killed the President's measure by a 53-to-30 vote. It was another flat rebuff for the White House...
...will meet with representatives of your industry group . . . February 1 to negotiate in good faith . . ." The date he set had a purpose behind it too-it is the very day that the U.M.W. had been ordered to appear in Washington's district court to answer General Counsel Robert Denham of the National Labor Relations Board, who wants a court injunction against John L.'s three-day week...
Whether or not they intended it so, the operators had thus given John Lewis a timely assist. His willingness to negotiate weakened Denham's case against his union. It gave Lewis something to report to the 91,000 soft-coal miners who, in their eagerness for a full strike or a new mine contract, were mutinying against him (TIME, Jan. 30). It also gave Big John a chance to talk business in the climate he likes best. After seven months of his production-throttling three-day week, Lewis had equalized his bargaining position. That is, he had whittled...