Word: nirb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Williams Out. If for no other reason than that he was president of that highly successful capitalistic enterprise, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels), Labor has been unalterably opposed to Samuel Clay Williams as NIRB Chairman since the day he succeeded NRAdministrator Hugh Johnson (TIME, Feb. 25). Because he believed that Mr. Williams had given employers the better of the bargain when he helped frame the preliminary cigaret code before he came to NRA, President Ira Milard Ornburn of the A. F. of L. cigar makers' union introduced a resolution at last autumn's Federation convention urging President...
...January when the automobile code came up for renewal, Chairman Williams and the other NIRB business member voted to have the code renewed practically as is. The other three board members voted against it. Thereupon Chairman Williams took his minority report to President Roosevelt, got it approved. Upshot was that pressure chiefly from Labor last week eased Samuel Clay Williams out of a job that he never wanted anyway...
...industry and leaders of labor. Chairman Williams' administrative officer is William Averell Harriman, son of Capitalism, who has made more of a mark in NRA than he made in business. Four thousand underlings post over land and sea or sit at desks doing their bidding. Day by day NIRB turns out reams of decisions and orders which, for affected industries, have all the authority of substantive law. In every city, town and hamlet NRA's viceroys, the code authorities, govern as best they can. The 1,400 mills of the cotton textile industry, employing half a million workers...
...President also took occasion to make public his reply to a resolution passed at the San Francisco convention last October urging him to dismiss NIRB Chairman S. Clay Williams for anti-labor acts supposedly committed when he was president of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. "Dear Bill," the President patiently began in his answer to Mr. Green, "I think it is perhaps best that I should not reply officially to the resolution. . . . There is no need for any controversy over the resolution or in regard to a number of inaccuracies of fact and conclusion in the resolution. As you know...
Last week President Roosevelt's NIRB committee, headed by Economic Adviser Leon Henderson, made public its report on conditions in the automobile industry. It did not mention Fisher Body's 18 giant presses but had many another marvel of technological advance to reveal. Ex- amples...