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...Pressman, general counsel for the Congress of Industrial Organizations, will deliver his legal analysis of the highly controversial Taft-Hartley labor act to tite University chapter of the National Lawyers Guild in Lagdell Courtroom tonight at 8 o'clock...
...Pressman, who was graduated from the Law School in 1929, is presently in Boston for the CIO's ninth annual convention, which opened Monday at the Hotel Bradford...
...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...
...side of the line. He had followed the advice of Administration labor specialists and his close adviser, Clark Clifford. He had bought labor's case, lock, stock & barrel; on many points his vehement, sharply worded message to Congress (see col. 3) squared exactly with the analysis of Lee Pressman, the C.I.O.'s able counsel, a Communist-line leftist...
What worried Lee Pressman and other union leaders were the effects of the suits on the whole body of the Wages & Hours Act. Last week, the Senate started hearings on bills to slam the door against portal pay suits. The one which really raised the hair of unionists was the bill of Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart. It sounded reasonable. The bill would prohibit suits against any employer who had "acted in good faith" to obey the Wages & Hours Act. But under this bill, which many Congressmen favored, unionists knew that it would be almost impossible...