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...workers into company unions. They demanded shop elections under Labor Board auspices for workers to choose their own unions. The Labor Board heard them with much sympathy. Only that morning Senator Wagner had appeared before a Senate Committee to advocate passage of his Labor Disputes Bill which would practically outlaw company unions (TiME, March 19). Next day William S. Knudsen. General Motors' executive vice president, and Abraham E. Barit. Hudson's executive vice president, appeared. Each offered a cold, formal statement and turned his back on the committee. Mr. Knudsen's statement: "In the fall...
Labor. Up to last week the President had not taken a stand for or against Senator Wagner's bill to set up a permanent Labor Board (see p. 11). Nonetheless Washington would not be surprised to see the bill pass, with some amendments that would not completely outlaw company unions. The bill fits in with the President's idea of the New Deal, but whether it will fit in with his legislative program is another matter...
...tabulate the citizen and alien population of New York City by blocks as basis for reapportionment for the State Legislature (a blow at Tammany) ; 3)announced that he would favor a law to prevent party officials, government officers and Congressmen from lobbying for government contracts, and also to outlaw professional lobbyists from similar employment...
...beau geste, the customary mellow phrase from that superannuated society of diplomats, but even that has been lacking. The reason may be found in the constitution of the organization itself. At its inception, the right to declare war was expressly reserved for each of its members gathered, ostensibly, to outlaw it. Rampant, nationalisms cannot enter a suicide pact cheerfully unless their pistols are loaded with blank cartridges...
...What notorious Southwestern outlaw has a girl who smokes cigars, carries a gun, goes by the name of Suicide...