Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed and sent to the House the Wagner Housing Bill...
Well aware of the filth, crime and disease spawned in New York City's sprawling slums, Manhattan's square-headed Robert Ferdinand Wagner proposed a bill two years ago seeking to eliminate such surroundings. The embryonic law died in the Senate Education and Labor Committee. Last year Senator Wagner's seasoned measure passed the Senate with little debate but Congress adjourned before the House could consider...
...Wagner Housing Bill...
...going to tolerate administration by a board or a bureau which in turn is going to tolerate practices of that kind, the hour is not far off when Americans are going to be reminded that 'it can happen here.' " Brought down to more relevant ground by Senator Wagner, Senator Nye conceded that he had never heard an employer deny that NLRB elections, at least, were "absolutely fair and impartial...
Passed by the Michigan Legislature last June was a broad new labor statute, inaccurately referred to as a "Little Wagner Act." Among the provisions of the law was a ban on: 1) mass picketing which obstructed "or otherwise interfered" with entrance to a striking plant; 2) picketing which obstructed public highways or 3) picketing by people not directly involved in the strike. This was not precisely what Labor-loving Governor Murphy wanted but he pronounced the measure a long step toward industrial peace...