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...National Labor Relations Board has been stalled since last August, when Chairman J. Warren Madden 's term expired. The remaining Board members, William Leiserson and Edwin S. Smith, in almost continuous disagreement, dead locked. Without Madden to cast the deciding vote, work of the Board practically ceased...
...Millis was expected to range his hefty, slow-moving bulk alongside gnomelike, conservative Dr. Leiserson. No grassgreen mediator, 67-year-old Dr. Millis has been listening to labor disputes for 20 years. No stranger to NLRB, he had served on the Board once before, in 1934-35 under NRA. Emeritus professor of economics at the University of Chicago, he has written scholarly, dull, copiously annotated books. As a mediator he is known for oxlike patience, horse sense. His present job: permanent conciliator between General Motors Corp. and C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers...
Obervers expect that Millis will team up with Board member William M. Leiserson to form a more conservative majority than has held away in the past, and thus silence much of the criticism directed toward the New Deal agency...
...bigger forces than Orangeman Davidson moved against NLRB last week. It developed that some people in NLRB had felt uneasy about its conduct long before the Smith investigation got under way, but had done nothing to reform it. Last August NLRB Trouble Shooter William Leiserson forced the Board to examine its own efficiency. Four NLRB regional directors studied the evidence for 60 days, in October severely indicted the Board's administrative methods, policies, machinery, recommended specific changes, many of them aimed at unpopular Secretary Witt. OverDr. Leiserson's protest, Boardmen Edwin S. Smith and J. Warren Madden pigeonholed...
...administrative defects revealed by the Smith investigation must be corrected. Probably best plan: to follow recommendations of Dr. William M. Leiserson, last appointee to the NLRB, for changes in personnel...