Word: l
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...L.'s late, great Founder Sam Gompers and his colleagues (including Bill Green, John Lewis) long ago perfected what Mr. Green now calls the Federation's "bargaining technique." Mr. Lewis' C. I. O. is not above using it, but it is A. F. of L.'s particular pride and asset...
...L. now proposes to insure its technique against interference by the present or any future U. S. Labor Board. Important among its ways of doing...
...bargaining unit-whether it includes one man or 100 in a plant, whether or not a majority of the workers in the plant want craft unions. (NLRB now has discretion to determine which type of bargaining unit seems fairest, in practice has decided in favor of A. F. of L. a majority of disputes directly involving this question. But precedents for deciding otherwise exist, hence bother A. F. of L.'s craft-conscious leadership...
...Circuit Courts of Appeal to review NLRB's findings. (NLRB frankly doubts that many judges are competent to scent the innumerable subtleties of Labor warfare, is already worried because the U. S. Supreme Court has in effect given lower courts the power proposed by A. F. of L...
...wrecking of the motor workers union would be a serious matter. John L. Lewis, locked in contest with A. F. of L. over the Wagner Act, jockeying for advantage in peace talks with the Federation and tied up in contract negotiations for his miners with soft-coal operators, did what he had done before: shipped his lieutenants, Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman, to the scene of disruption...