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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fourteen of their amendments would all but abolish NLRB's powers of discretion, and substitute in effect a set of rules for the elastic administration provided when NLRA was passed in 1935. Another would abolish the three-man NLRB, replace it with a five-man Federal Labor Board whose membership possibly would be more to A. F. of L.'s liking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wagner Charta | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

First witness: New York's Senator Robert F. Wagner, daddy of the Act. Whether he will stand pat, publicly voice a belief that NLRB has gone astray but that the statute is as good as ever or offer some compromise amendments of his own, Bob Wagner refused to say. Last week the Administration, which generally looks to Bob Wagner for advice on Labor matters, significantly omitted the Wagner Act amendment from its list of ten "preferred" items on the Senate calendar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wagner Charta | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...polled by Gallup think the Wagner Act needs mending. Yet few of them understand why A. F. of L.'s executive council, which William Green represents, should want to have its Magna Charta and change it too. The reason A. F. of L. is so angry with NLRB Chairman J. Warren Madden and his two Smiths (Edwin Seymour, Donald Wakefield) is in the Wagner Act itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wagner Charta | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...Freeze into the law mandatory recognition of "any existing craft" as a bargaining unit-whether it includes one man or 100 in a plant, whether or not a majority of the workers in the plant want craft unions. (NLRB now has discretion to determine which type of bargaining unit seems fairest, in practice has decided in favor of A. F. of L. a majority of disputes directly involving this question. But precedents for deciding otherwise exist, hence bother A. F. of L.'s craft-conscious leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wagner Charta | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...time. He gave the President power to alter the setup of all executive agencies-except certain ones, specifically listed. (Important exceptions in the bill as passed by the Senate: Civil Service, Communications, Power, Trade, Interstate Commerce, Securities & Exchange, Employes' Compensation, Maritime, Tariff Commissions, Army Engineers Corps, Coast Guard, NLRB, Board of Tax Appeals, Federal Reserve Board, FDIC, Veterans' Administration. Most important: the Comptroller General's office, whose functions of o.k.-ing expenditures beforehand and auditing them afterward the President last year sought to divide between, respectively, the Budget Director and a new Auditor General.) The bill also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Reorganization Reorganized | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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