Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, wordy, 80-year-old District Judge Oliver Booth Dickinson of Philadelphia had much to say, thereby made an obscure labor case highly significant and, at least temporarily, regained some of his lost powers. Noting that the Wagner Act suspends Norris-LaGuardia restrictions in so far as they hamper Circuit Court enforcement of NLRB orders. Judge Dickinson deduced that District courts may intervene by injunction to protect NLRB from interference while cases are before the Board. In the case before Judge Dickinson last week, four A. F. of L. unions were interfering with NLRB...
...stores'] present predicament is wholly due to the circumstance that their employes are unorganized and looked upon as fair game for the organizers. . . . The law which stands behind [NLRB] in enforcing its judgments will and must stand behind it in reaching those judgments. ... No friend of labor, or at least organized labor, could think otherwise...
...Counsel Joseph Padway thought otherwise, declared in Washington: "The Wagner Act specifically provides under Section 13 that 'nothing in this act shall be construed so as to interfere with, or impede or diminish in any way the right to strike.' The American Federation of Labor will appeal this case...
...year ago the United Automobile Workers, their youthful ex-preacher president, Homer Martin, their strapping and scrappy organizer, Richard Frankensteen, were stars in the drama of renascent U. S. Labor and in the crown of John L. Lewis' C.I.O. Since then nearly half of U.A.W.'s 400,000 members have been laid off and U.A.W.'s high command has been riven by a bitter political feud. If John L. Lewis could do nothing about the first difficulty, he could try to mend the second. So last week he welcomed both parties, which had split half-&-half...
...John Lewis insisted on seeing them together at his palatial new United Mine Workers headquarters. There he gave them a stiff six-hour talking to. Grim and tired, Leader Lewis emerged to announce that all parties would go to Capitol Hill next day to lobby for an important labor bill, an amendment to the Walsh-Healey Act making compliance with the Wagner Act a prerequisite for firms awarded Government contracts. After that, the factions were to reconvene at the Lewis headquarters...