Word: pressman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pressman, who was graduated from the Law School in 1929, is in Boston for the CIO's ninth annual convention, which opened Monday at the Hotel Bradford...
Characterizing the Taft-Hartley law as "the perfect crime" against the cause of labor, Lee Pressman, general counsel for the Congress of Industrial Organizations, last night attacked the recent act section by section before a tightly-packed Law School crowd in Langdell Court. Pressman appeared as the guest of the University chapter of the National Lawyers Guild...
...lengthy analysis of the most widely discussed provisions of the act, Pressman affirmed that it "for all practical purposes . . . has completely repealed the Wagner Act, and its protection for workers...
Discussing the individual sections of the law, Pressman particularly condemned its restriction of union elections and negotiations until the union in question has been cleared by a certificate from the National Labor Relations Board. As a result of this provision, he said, two or three "stool pigeons" can delay progress of union activities indefinitely by swearing that they have been intimidated into joining the union...
...leaders in organized labor's fight to halt final enactment of the bill, Pressman last June submitted an outlined interpretation of the Taft-Hartley law to Congress, in an effort to rally support for an impending Presidential veto...