Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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York area, the union last April won a State board election by a majority of 36 votes in 2,520, was then certified as bargaining agent. Metropolitan's famed Attorney Samuel Seabury asked New York Supreme Court Justice Aron Steuer to set aside the order. Grounds: the State Labor Relations act is unconstitutional; in any event it does not cover insurance agents; "The only Constitutional sanction for [union recognition by State decree] is to be found in the Constitution of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics of Russia." Last week Justice Steuer turned down Mr. Seabury, upheld I.I.A.U...
...Kraschel had declared martial law, closed the recently reopened Maytag plant. Reason: Maytag rejected a settlement proposed by Kraschel arbitrators, started the plant against the Governor's wishes, precipitated fighting between non-union and C. I. O. men. While Kraschel troopers ruled Newton and the Governor garnered much labor support in his campaign for reelection, NLRB Examiner Madison Hill heard testimony that Maytag, local authorities and Judge Homer A. Fuller wanted to smash...
...American Bar Association in Cleveland. At the opening session, the A. B. A.'s outgoing president. Arthur T. Vanderbilt of Newark, dwelt on "the outstanding legal development of the 20th Century" - the Federal Government's quasi-judicial administrative agencies, such as the Securities & Exchange Commission, the National Labor Relations Board...
What Shall We Do About the Unemployed? (Wed. 8 p.m., CBS) discussed by Professor Lyman Bryson's dinner guests: National Labor Relations Board Regional Director Eleanore M. Herrick, Lawyer Amos R. E. Pinchot, National Occupational Conference Director Robert Happock, an anonymous bricklayer...
...Reaffirmed with slight modifications the hours of service restrictions for the trucking industry as drawn up last December. Originally scheduled to go into effect July 1, these rules were postponed upon protests from Labor, which wanted a maximum 8-hr, day, 48-hr, week. The ICC's truck division had specified a maximum 60-hr. week with 15 hr. of duty and twelve of work in any 24. Last week, pointing out that the Motor Carriers Act was designed for safety reasons, not for "economic or social ends," the ICC. clung to the 60-hr. week but specified that...