Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court today ruled that employers may not dis-criminate against union workers in reinstating employees after a strike in a decision which heartened the National Labor Relations Board in its legal battle with the Ford Motor Co., The Ru-public Steel Corp., and other companies. In a session in which labor verdicts rivaled in importance the court's decision to review the entire TVA controvery. the highest tribunal found the Mackay Radio and Telegraph Company guilty of discriminating against five telegraphers and validated the Roards's order that they must be reiuntated with back...
Last week Mr. Padway enjoyed an excellent chance to butter up the doubters, sell himself to the executive council as a whole. While he tried to do so the council concluded a busy spring session in Washington, took the following actions...
Cleveland's relief crisis last week was only the most spectacular part of a State-wide situation which has been growing worse all winter. A special session of the State Legislature adjourned the end of February without solving the relief problem, has since been called to meet in another special session for the purpose. Relief funds began to run out in Cleveland last month. Last week, most of the city's 800 relief workers, who had all been discharged because there was no money for their pay checks, stayed on as volunteers. The city council raised...
...this was a pleasant change for Wanamaker's, it was no less pleasant for the Congress artists, who would like nothing better than to become home furnishers in their line. Unlike the anti-War & Fascism exhibition which the Congress held along with its Carnegie Hall session last December, last week's show emphasized quality. Sculptor William Zorach's Football Player, a lineman relaxed on his haunches, impressed critics as one of the few successful handlings to date of that oddly difficult subject. Artist Marc Perper's Poverty was an unusually solid work of imagination...
...applause which greeted these sentiments was equaled next day when General Motors' President William S. Knudsen rose at the general session to relate G. M.'s troubles with labor and its effect upon business. Excerpt: "The Industrial Union in its present form has to depend on force in defiance of law. There are not many places in the U. S. at the moment where laws can be enforced to control the movement. The technique of the sit-down strikers is identical with that of the syndicalists of Europe. France has finally had to take a stand against them...