Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Daddy on Horns. Lawyer Padway and his boss, A. F. of L. President William Green, denounce any suggestion that they are doing for the Wagner Act approximately what farm and industrial conservatives are doing to Wisconsin's labor laws. To Green, Padway & Co. the Wagner Act is pretty much all right but the National Labor Relations Board is all wrong. So saying, they last week urged Congress to rewrite...
Fourteen of their amendments would all but abolish NLRB's powers of discretion, and substitute in effect a set of rules for the elastic administration provided when NLRA was passed in 1935. Another would abolish the three-man NLRB, replace it with a five-man Federal Labor Board whose membership possibly would be more to A. F. of L.'s liking...
...considerable embarrassment of Bill Green, who strenuously opposes even more drastic alterations proposed by Hoffman, Burke, N. A. M., the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. John Lewis' C. I. O. resists any change, on the ground that once the Wagner Act is opened up for amendments, Labor's enemies may have a field...
...regarded this law as the Magna Charta of Labor. We so regard it now. That is why we are so deeply disappointed by the failure of the National Labor Relations Board to administer this law satisfactorily. . . . We believe the Act, properly administered under these amendments, will promote industrial peace...
Looming in their way was Utah's solemn Laborcrat Elbert D. Thomas, chairman of the Senate Education & Labor Committee. "I am opposed to revision in any way that will interfere with the proper working out of this law," Elbert Thomas had said. Convinced that A. F. of L. revision would seriously interfere, he proposed to save the Wagner Act by postponing hearings on their proposals. His excuse: since amendment is a prime issue between A. F. of L. and C. I. O., hearings should be delayed for the duration of Franklin Roosevelt's negotiations for Labor Peace. Twice...