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...accident that the resurgence of Labor coincides with the presence in the Cabinet of its first woman, and she in the Labor Department. In Madam Secretary Perkins is concentrated all the philosophy of the New Deal and most of its instinctive sympathy for the working man. Early & late she has served as his able, articulate spokesman around the Cabinet table, before Congressional committees, at NRA hearings, on the stump. For the first time in years the working man may feel that there is a trained mind functioning for him in Washington. Gone are the easy platitudes of the politician; Miss...
...only reconciled to but jubilant over Miss Perkins. She had clearly showed her stripe when she stood up for mill workers at the steel code hearing before NRA (TIME, Aug. 7). That hearing was to have been the first important test of the union v. non-union issue. Madam Secretary Perkins had gone in person to the steel mills of Pittsburgh and Baltimore to talk with employes. She returned to Washington prepared to make vigorous war on the steel industry's proposed company unions-''War bridegrooms" she called them, harking back to the able-bodied citizens...
With the tension considerably eased by this unexpected surrender, Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins mounted the witness stand to fire a volley of criticism into other provisions of Steel's code. She had forearmed herself for this attack by going, in a black dress that would not show soot, right into the mills and blast furnaces at Pittsburgh to talk with employes on work & wages. Now before NRA she was an emphatic objector to Steel's limited concessions to Labor. With all the prestige of the New Deal behind her, she pointed out that the proposed 40-hour...
Proud and pleased was General Johnson that some 30 industries were about ready to hand in their proposed codes. The wheels of I. R. A.'s machinery seemed to be whirring productively when up stepped Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins. She had to be heard. The law had set up a special Labor Board (see p. 16) especially to advise I. R. A., and Madam Perkins was its head. She & Board were determined to prevent employers from taking advantage of employes in the blind haste to get the recovery program going...
...Labor Advisory Board were ap pointed by Madam Secretary Perkins: Economist Leo Wolman: Joseph Frey, president of International Boilermakers Union; William H. Green, president of the A. F. of L.; Father Francis Haas of the Catholic Welfare Council : Rose Schneiderman, Secretary of the Women's Trades Union League...