Word: prolabor
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This pleasing picture of NLRB impartiality is not shared throughout the land. The three-man Labor Board-Chairman J. (for Joseph) Warren Madden flanked by two men named Smith, Donald Wakefield and Edwin Seymour (no kin)-is generally rated proLabor. And NLRB's many enemies say this pro-Labor bias extends down through its 21 regional directors. NLRB's decisions have been roundly criticized not only for bias but for inconsistency. It has even been damned by A. F. of L. sympathizers...
...Sound-Off. Startling though this blast at a friendly Administration was, it was not so startling as an attack on the Labor Board last week from Senator Gerald P. Nye, usually rated proLabor. Comparing it to a "kangaroo court," the North Dakota Senator cried: "The National Labor Relations Board seems to have gone out of its way to demonstrate to the public that it is a partisan body rather than a judicial institution. It has disqualified itself as a referee between management and workers...
General Johnson, too, has a number of Jews in his Recovery army, foremost of whom are Sol Arian Rosenblatt, Administrator of Division V (Amusements & Transportation), and Alexander Sachs, Chief of the Division of Research & Planning. Head of NRA's Labor Advisory Board is Dr. Leo Wolman (prolabor but not a radical), who also sits on the National Labor Board and heads the Automobile Labor Board. And finally there is Rose Schneiderman (Labor Advisory Board) who last January went to Puerto Rico to iron out its labor difficulties and, more recently, has threatened to sue Dr. Wirt for calling...