Word: nams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Long dormant plans to scuttle the Board were revived three years ago by three anti-union allies: the National Association of Manufacturers, the United States Chamber of Commerce, and Republican conservatives. In 1965 the NAM and the CC appointed a "blue ribbon" committee of management lawyers to research Labor Board "violations" of management rights. Their report launched broadside attacks against the procedure and integrity of the Labor Board, accusing it of blatant pro-unionism. "Legislative remedy," it said, "should be aimed at the chief offender--the NLRB itself...
...NAM circulated the report nationally, along with well-named "ripper" amendments. Hill and Knowlton, a public relations firm versed in conservative causes, joined the campaign. (Hill and Knowlton formerly represented such clients as the gun lobby, the tobacco lobby, and the steel industry during the 1937, 1952, and 1959 strikes.) Under their direction, pamphlets of anti-labor research material were sent to newspaper writers around the county to encourage anti-NLRB editorials...
First, business must arouse anti-union feeling among the public. "Before we can take action to introduce legislation seeking major labor law reform," said an NAM vice-president, "it is necessary to create the kind of favorable public climate which resulted in the Taft-Hartley and Landrum-Griffin Acts." According to plan, the public support and efforts of Congressional conservatives will push through the Congress a bill to abolish the Labor Board, which a Republican President will then sign into...
Born. To Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, 24, and Major Charles S. Robb, 29, currently on duty in Viet Nam with the 1st Marine Division: a girl, their first child, and President Johnson's second grandchild; in Bethesda...
...secret assault on a Viet Cong stronghold? No. What took place last week was a strike against speculators in Military Payment Certificates, the U.S.-issued scrip used to pay American fighting men in Viet Nam. Colonel Richmond happens to be the U.S. military command's top comptroller, and C-day was the moment chosen for a surprise conversion in the $50 million worth of MFCs in circulation in Viet Nam...