Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Published last month by the Yale University Press was the first full-dress critical study of The Comptroller General by Assistant Professor Harvey C. Mansfield of Yale. Conclusions: that the Comptroller has become a law unto himself, imposed "nearly intolerable" conditions on operating establishments under his control, that his status and duties should be reconsidered by Congress...
...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...
...Freeze into the law mandatory recognition of "any existing craft" as a bargaining unit-whether it includes one man or 100 in a plant, whether or not a majority of the workers in the plant want craft unions. (NLRB now has discretion to determine which type of bargaining unit seems fairest, in practice has decided in favor of A. F. of L. a majority of disputes directly involving this question. But precedents for deciding otherwise exist, hence bother A. F. of L.'s craft-conscious leadership...
...nearly six months the U. S. public has put up with Federal wage-hour regulation in spite of the Wage & Hour Law. Administrator Elmer Frank Andrews has been able to get wide compliance mainly because: 1) he is a reasonable man; 2) the Act's demands are modest (25? an hour, 44 hours a week); 3) the penalties are so stiff that Business had to try to conform to a miserably written statute. Last week Mr. Andrews, vexed just as much as Business by the bungled law, asked Congress to cure the worst defects. His chief proposals...