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This pleasing picture of NLRB impartiality is not shared throughout the land. The three-man Labor Board-Chairman J. (for Joseph) Warren Madden flanked by two men named Smith, Donald Wakefield and Edwin Seymour (no kin)-is generally rated proLabor. And NLRB's many enemies say this pro-Labor bias extends down through its 21 regional directors. NLRB's decisions have been roundly criticized not only for bias but for inconsistency. It has even been damned by A. F. of L. sympathizers...
...Madden's Words...
...WARREN MADDEN...
...reporters at Chairman Madden's first big press conference after the Supreme Court's favorable decision on the Wagner Act heard exactly alike. The New York Herald Tribune recorded his statement: "This means the solution of industrial peace. It will not be necessary henceforth to have strikes to establish the right of labor unions to recognition for collective bargaining." New York Times: "This [decision] means industrial peace." New York News: "This Supreme Court decision means industrial peace for America...
NLRB's non-Smith and chairman is Joseph Warren Madden, a quiet, friendly, good-humored scholar, greying at 47, who has been law professor at Cornell, Stanford, Chicago, Oklahoma, Ohio State, West Virginia and Pittsburgh universities. No recluse, he served in Pittsburgh on an NRA regional labor board, a special committee to arbitrate a streetcar strike, a Governor's commission on special policing in industry, a federation of social agencies, a housing association. For fun he leads an orchestra composed of his three sons and two daughters, plays tennis with his sons and baseball with the NLRB employes...