Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remaining three cases held the gist of the case: were the steel industry (Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.), the automobile industry (Fruehauf Trailer Co.) and the clothing industry (Friedman-Harry Marks Clothing Co., Inc.) subject to the Wagner Act, obliged to obey the orders of the Labor Board to restore discharged employes, to refrain from intimidating employes against joining a union...
Significance. For the time being at least the Supreme Court's Wagner Labor Act decisions reduced the great debate over the President's Supreme Court enlargement plan to an all but academic question, for the immediate reason which drove many liberals to support it was their wish for Labor legislation. One important aspect of the Wagner Labor Act not involved in last week's decisions was the right of the Labor Board to order plant elections and give exclusive bargaining power for all to the representatives of the majority. With the boost given them by these decisions...
...York's Senator Robert Ferdinand Wagner, proud author of the historic law thus confirmed, at once took to the radio. This day's decisions, he declared with German-born reverseness, ranked "alongside the work done in the days of John Marshall" (the crusty old Chief Justice who first declared an act of Congress un-Constitutional). Mr. Wagner warned Labor's foes: "Let no one any longer take the law in his own hands, through self-appointed interpreters of what the Constitution means, through hired police or spies. . . ." Had such an act as his been the law long...
...week's end, with a group of self-styled "loyalists" clamoring for an application of the freshly-proven Wagner Act, the company signed a new agreement with the C.I.O. group outlawing strikes for six months, providing for a vote to determine whether the United Chocolate Workers Union or the Loyal Workers Club shall represent the workers. Both claim approximately two-thirds of all employes. Left unchanged by the agreement: wages & hours; Hershey's discharge & disciplinary powers...
...Guild activities. The AP refused. NLRB then asked the Second Circuit Court of Appeals for an enforcing order against the AP. This was granted and the AP appealed from it to the Supreme Court, arguing that the National Labor Relations Act of July 5, 1935, also called the Wagner Act, was invalid against the AP because: 1) it violated Freedom of the Press; 2) the AP's activities were not interstate commerce; 3) the NLRA was unconstitutional...