Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...February in Madison, Wis., Mr. Padway bellowed as though he himself were on the horns. The Legislature of his home State, in step with the rightward trend of U. S. politics, was considering bills to amend Wisconsin's famed, liberal State Labor Code of 1931 and its Little Wagner Act of 1937, which Joe Padway helped to draft. Having yet to emasculate Mr. Padway's State Labor Relations Act, Wisconsin's newly conservative Legislature last week made over the Labor Code, curtailed the right to strike or picket, and reopened the way for court injunctions in Labor...
Daddy on Horns. Lawyer Padway and his boss, A. F. of L. President William Green, denounce any suggestion that they are doing for the Wagner Act approximately what farm and industrial conservatives are doing to Wisconsin's labor laws. To Green, Padway & Co. the Wagner Act is pretty much all right but the National Labor Relations Board is all wrong. So saying, they last week urged Congress to rewrite...
...Hoffman approvingly quotes A. F. of L. to the considerable embarrassment of Bill Green, who strenuously opposes even more drastic alterations proposed by Hoffman, Burke, N. A. M., the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. John Lewis' C. I. O. resists any change, on the ground that once the Wagner Act is opened up for amendments, Labor's enemies may have a field...
...Laborcrat Elbert D. Thomas, chairman of the Senate Education & Labor Committee. "I am opposed to revision in any way that will interfere with the proper working out of this law," Elbert Thomas had said. Convinced that A. F. of L. revision would seriously interfere, he proposed to save the Wagner Act by postponing hearings on their proposals. His excuse: since amendment is a prime issue between A. F. of L. and C. I. O., hearings should be delayed for the duration of Franklin Roosevelt's negotiations for Labor Peace. Twice he succeeded. Last week, noting that the negotiations seemed...
First witness: New York's Senator Robert F. Wagner, daddy of the Act. Whether he will stand pat, publicly voice a belief that NLRB has gone astray but that the statute is as good as ever or offer some compromise amendments of his own, Bob Wagner refused to say. Last week the Administration, which generally looks to Bob Wagner for advice on Labor matters, significantly omitted the Wagner Act amendment from its list of ten "preferred" items on the Senate calendar...