Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because some judges have abused the power to restrain unions, recent Federal legislation has treated U. S. District judges like problem children. In most labor disputes. Federal injunctions are forbidden by the Norris-LaGuardia Act. The Wagner Act routes , appeals from NLRB decisions direct to U. S. Circuit Courts, forbids lower courts to enjoin the Board, in general assumes that the less District judges have to say about labor cases the better...
Last week, wordy, 80-year-old District Judge Oliver Booth Dickinson of Philadelphia had much to say, thereby made an obscure labor case highly significant and, at least temporarily, regained some of his lost powers. Noting that the Wagner Act suspends Norris-LaGuardia restrictions in so far as they hamper Circuit Court enforcement of NLRB orders. Judge Dickinson deduced that District courts may intervene by injunction to protect NLRB from interference while cases are before the Board. In the case before Judge Dickinson last week, four A. F. of L. unions were interfering with NLRB...
Thus NLRB concluded an undefeated season in the Supreme Court. There remained only one form of attack which could stop NLRB's work: a change in the Wagner Labor Act itself. Although employers' talk of amending the Act has met little response from Congress, for a time last week it looked as if NLRB in its hour of triumph might be given a sudden jolt...
...correspondents of the New York Daily News, John O'Donnell & Doris Fleeson, who often produce scoops from Administration sources, announced that Franklin Roosevelt had decided that: 1) there is merit in employers' plaints that the Wagner Act is cruelly prejudicial to them; 2) Congress should do something about it. As a first step, they reported the President was picking a commission to study British labor practice, bring back suggestions for watering down the Wagner Act. As a result of the report, C. I. O.'s John L. Lewis hastily informed Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins...
...Disputes Act and how it works. So, out of the kindness of his heart, he wished to get some information for the press, and especially for editorial writers and columnists. To that end, a commission would go abroad and eventually report in words of one syllable. As for the Wagner Act. he had said before and he repeated again that the whole subject of labor relations is in a process of evolution and the U. S. has a great deal to learn...