Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resounding decision that put it in direct conflict with the Federal bench, the U. S. Labor Board last fortnight held National Electric Products Corp. in Ambridge, Pa. guilty of unfair labor practices under the Wagner Act. A Federal district court had held that a contract by which the corporation granted a closed shop to an A. F. of L. union was valid and must be obeyed. The Board flatly declared the contract was "void and of no effect" and must be ignored (TIME, Sept. 13). Last week the Board carried the controversy a step farther only to make a monkey...
...election was thrown back into the lap cf the Labor Board. The broader question of the case -whether an employer should obey the Board or the bench when their orders conflict-also remained to be settled in what may well be another Supreme Court test of the Wagner...
...prepare himself spiritually for his grueling week of speeches Der Führer went on the eve of the Congress to Nurnberg's annual command performance of his favorite opera, a five-hour unabridged performance of Wagner's Die Meistersinger, heard his favorite tenor, soulful-looking Eyvind Lahome (nè plain Victor Johnson of Birmingham, Ala.). Despite Der Fuhrer's frequent blasts against the U. S. in general, Herr Hitler applauds U. S. Citizen Lahome in particular as the ideal interpreter of Walther the Wagnerian knight, has awarded him the rare State title of Kammersänger...
...Court of Appeals the Board must also look for ultimate enforcement of its dictates. Whatever the outcome in that jurisdiction, the case will probably be carried to the Supreme Court in another Wagner Act test. At stake is more than a question of labor jurisdiction. It is a question of jurisdiction of two governmental agencies. Intervention of the lower Federal courts in such labor disputes is a direct challenge to the Board's power and vice versa. The Board insisted last week that the Wagner Act "embodies a public policy of national concern and is the supreme...
...week-end delivered a message to the Union on the State of Labor. For all U. S. Labor the preceding twelve months had been-by moderate estimate-the most significant in history. Both in power and numbers the U. S. Labor movement reached an all-time peak. In its Wagner Act decisions the Supreme Court had substantially upheld the labor laws of the New Deal. Springing full-grown from the forehead...