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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Lewis stalked in with the directors of his United Mine Workers. They listened to the testimony in silence but a few days later Mr. Lewis issued a statement from the Steel Workers Organizing Committee endorsed by the United Mine Workers. Said S. W. 0. C.: "The Federal Government throughout this entire situation has not displayed the slightest interest in protecting the rights of the steel workers on strike. . . . Seventeen steel workers have been cruelly and wantonly murdered. Not a single person has as yet been brought to account. . . . Not a single steel worker engaged in the strike...
...National Statistical Service, Inc., Mr. Schwarzschild still supervises the annual publication of famed, authoritative American Underwriting Houses and Their Issues. Believing that the obsolete security business begun by Mr. Smythe needs to get beyond Wall Street and the Produce Exchange into the attics and safe-deposit boxes throughout the East, Mr. Schwarzschild last week announced a campaign to arouse owners of forgotten bonds. This week Smythe, Inc.'s first traveling library will leave Manhattan in a trailer for upstate New York in charge of two young men commissioned to set up as consultants or as buyers of "cats & dogs...
...broadened, i) to include bondholders' suits against underwriters, 2) more vigilance in seeing that short-term creditors-almost always bankers-do not yank their own chestnuts from the fire one jump ahead of the long-term bondholders. In Germany, of course, the big Manhattan bankers did that consistently throughout the Depression...
...sweltering Manhattan last week the feet of one Daniel Long, 66 and unwell, stumbled under him. As the dirty buildings slowly swayed in his drowsy mind, his knees buckled and, panting like an asthmatic old dog, he fell in a heat stroke. Similar strokes downed hundreds throughout the nation during the last, hot fortnight. But old Dan Long's was unique. When attendants of Bellevue Hospital took his rectal temperature, routine procedure in cases of heat stroke, they found it to be 109.8° F., highest in that vast old hospital's records...