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...were generally inefficient. In 1934, against the bitter lobbying of the Association of American Railroads, the New Deal shoved through a Railway Labor Act Amendment with teeth in it, set up a three-man National Mediation Board. Chairman since then has been little, alert, Estonian-born Dr. William Morris Leiserson, onetime professor of economics at Antioch College and a lifelong expert on arbitration. His present fellow members are both 200-pounders: George Cook, who began his career as a railroad timekeeper and has worked for every railroad mediation body since 1920, and Otto Sternoff Beyer, who assisted Joseph Eastman when...
...Appointing three members of a new National Mediation Board to settle railway labor disputes: 1) William M. Leiserson, Estonian-born economist, who on the day of his appointment resigned as chairman of the Petroleum Labor Policy Board to return to his job as Professor of Sociology at Antioch College. 2) James W. Carmalt, longtime legal adviser to the Interstate Commerce Commission and now adviser to Railway Coordinator Joseph B. Eastman. 3) John Carmody, onetime mediator for the National Labor Board, now chief engineer for Federal Emergency Relief Administration...
November 21. "Contributions of Personnel Management to Improvement of American Labor Relations," by Professor W. M. Leiserson of Antioch College...
...Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania, on "The Coal Industry and Industrial Relations"; John P. Frey, secretary-treasurer, Metal Trades Department A. F. of L., on "The Development of Industrial Relations Through mutual Consent": Professor John R. Commons. Wisconsin University, on "Jurisdictional Disputes"; Professor William M. Leiserson, Antloch College, on "Contributions of Personnel Management to Improvement of American Labor Relations"; Elton Mayo, Associate Professor Industrial Research, in the Business School, on "Maladjustment of the Industrial Worker"; and Professor F. W. Taussig, of the Economics Department on "The Social Situation, its Difficulties, its Possibilities...