Word: laborman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, D. C. drive on speeders police arrested big, burly President John Llewellyn Lewis of United Mine Workers on a charge of driving 42 m. p. h. in a 30-mile zone. Laborman Lewis posted a $10 bond, left town. On Pennsylvania Avenue a patrolman stopped Mrs. J. Borden ("Daisy") Harriman, famed Washington hostess and member of the Women's Safety Committee of the American Automobile Association, charged her with driving 32 m. p. h.. carrying an expired license. Next Socialite Sportswoman Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, was picked up for driving on the wrong side...
Only discordant note in this symphony of reaction was played by Chairman Joseph Warren Madden of the National Labor Relations Board. Indeed, some of the business congressmen gruffed for publication that Laborman Madden had abused their hospitality, that he had not been invited "to come here and make a union speech...
...Laborman Madden bluntly declared that industrial management "can and does effectively destroy the right of self-organization among workmen." When writing the Wagner Act another Congress had been well aware that in fighting labor, business did not hesitate to use intimidation, coercion, discharges, stool-pigeons, company unions. Moreover, Laborman Madden could cite a Supreme Court decision upholding the right to organize written by no less eminent a Republican than the late Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who once opined from the bench: "[Labor unions] were organized out of the necessities of the situation. A single employe was helpless in dealing...