Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Equalize the Wagner Labor...
...represent employes of Union Premier Food Stores Inc. NLRB called an election to determine the workers' preference. A. F. of L. refused to participate, picketed the stores, demanded that Judge Dickinson dismiss the company's petition for a restraining order. Instead, Judge Dickinson found that the Wagner Act permitted him to do, in NLRB's interest, what the Norris-LaGuardia Act forbade: order the pickets to disperse...
...Counsel Joseph Padway thought otherwise, declared in Washington: "The Wagner Act specifically provides under Section 13 that 'nothing in this act shall be construed so as to interfere with, or impede or diminish in any way the right to strike.' The American Federation of Labor will appeal this case...
...Mine Workers headquarters. There he gave them a stiff six-hour talking to. Grim and tired, Leader Lewis emerged to announce that all parties would go to Capitol Hill next day to lobby for an important labor bill, an amendment to the Walsh-Healey Act making compliance with the Wagner Act a prerequisite for firms awarded Government contracts. After that, the factions were to reconvene at the Lewis headquarters...
Whether or not studio employes, from Greta Garbo to studio gatekeepers, can take their labor difficulties to the National Labor Relations Board has been a controversial subject in the cinema industry since the Supreme Court upheld the Wagner Act last year. Last week it was answered when the NLRB handed down a long-awaited decision involving Hollywood's 350 screen writers, most of whom make between $150 and $5,000 a week...