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...last press conference before entraining for New Orleans (see p. 15). At the convention tables, the Chamber-men to whom he had refused for the third successive year to send any greeting throbbed with approval as President B. C. Heacock of Caterpillar Tractor Co. told how he settled a sit-down by CIO "brigands." With comfort they listened to a running fire of legal advice on the Wagner Act by John D. Black, member of the Chicago law firm of Silas Hardy Strawn, potent onetime president of the Chamber. Might they fire sit-downers? someone asked. Replied Lawyer Black, eyes...
...Participation in a sit-down strike is the performance of an illegal act and if any occurred in a plant of mine I wouldn't hesitate to advise discharge...
...concluding session next day the Chamber authorized its directors to draft a program for amendment of the Wagner Act on nine points: 1) a curb on sit-down strikes; 2) prohibition of political contri-butions by unions; 3) outlawing of "intimidation" by unions; 4) limitation of picketing to "giving information"; 5) compulsory arbitration of labor disputes in public utilities; 6) prohibition of strikes by Government employes; 7) public registration of both employer and employe groups negotiating labor agreements; 8) definition of ''unlawful labor practices" under the Wagner Act; 9) establishment of the responsibility of Labor. Elected president...
...were profoundly pleased at the selection of Mr. Landis a few months ago, on the basis of his brilliant legal thinking and his diplomatic handling of the S.E.C., it comes as distinct shock that the new Dean of the Law School has shown doubts about the illegality of the sit-down strike and has come out in favor of the Supreme Court change...
...question of Mr. Landis's fitness to be Dean has nothing to do with what he thinks about sit-down strikes or the packing of the Court. Those of Harvard's State Street graduates who took de light in snubbing the Dean on the occasion of a recent dinner at the Harvard Club in Boston were just as ill-mannered in the conservative view-point as they accuse the Dean of being "ill-tempered and unlawyerlike" in the other direction. The dean's immediate political thoughts can hardly be said to have anything to do with the case...