Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attributed Roosevelt's efforts to unite the warring factions to the fact that the Chief Executive realizes that dualism in union leadership will tend both to weaken and split the Labor vote. The instructor did not doubt that William Green will throw his support as well as that of other A. F. of L. leaders with the Republican party in the coming Presidential election unless the wound in Labor ranks is healed...
...extraordinary examples of cooperation between Management & Labor got into the news last week...
Part of an elaborate program instituted to remedy that fault was a school set up by the corporation, but run by and for the unions. Last week 24 students of labor history, economics, business administration, the Wagner Act, other subjects of joint concern to worker & boss graduated from Pabco's school, bade fair to make labor-relations history...
...exchange restrictions, boycotters nevertheless claim much credit for these whopping trade losses. That credit must be divided between 1) the uncoordinated efforts of millions of individual shoppers, and 2) the organized activity that stems chiefly from two groups: the Joint Boycott Council (of the American Jewish Congress and Jewish Labor Committee) and the American Boycott Against Aggressor Nations (onetime Committee for a Boycott Against Japanese Aggression...
This is the statement that I objected to allowing interest groups to be represented in the National Labor Relations Board because it "would swing the balance of power too far in favor of the employer." My objection to the proposed reconstruction of the Board along interest group lines is based upon the character of the functions which the Board performs. The Board is a quasi-judicial agency and is expected to enforce certain definite prohibitions. The conventional interest group composition of labor boards works well, if at all, only when the functions of the Board so organized are mediatory...