Word: wagner
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...page measure struck in three directions: at the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act, at the Norris-LaGuardia (anti-injunction) Act, at Communist influence in trade unions. Its chief points (see box) were long, strong and sharp. They were nailed down by stern rules and broad new definitions. The only kind of "compulsory unionism" the bill permitted was the union shop,* and then only if a majority of the workers wanted it and the employer himself had no objection. The bill would safeguard both workers' and employers' rights to speak out against unions. It would deprive workers...
Against Tyranny. The House's avowed aim was to bring an end to "widespread industrial strife." That had also been the avowed aim of Congress in 1935, when it passed the Wagner Act. But the 80th Congress now thought that the hard facts of industrial strife had demonstrated the fallacy in congressional thinking twelve years ago. From an annual average of 753 strikes involving 297,000 workers before the NRA, precursor of the Wagner Act, the strike chart had climbed to 4,985 strikes involving 4,650,000 workers in 1946. Annual average of man-days lost before...
...check-off of union dues, and to permit the union shop only with the employer's blessing. These and other measures are considered necessary to trim labor's "monopoly." This line of argument overlooks the fact that while organized labor trebled its ranks under the protection of the Wagner and Norris-LaGuardia acts, violence and extra-legal actions have been dropped from the arsenals of those unions that can approach the conference table with bargaining power approximately equal to that of management...
...himself, no amount of general education had ever dimmed his appreciation for a seat in the bleachers, or an esoteric discussion on the relative merits of Honus Wagner and Marty Marion. He had passed the stage of collecting picture cards and autographed baseballs, when his yearly trip to Yankee Stadium had assumed the proportions of a pilgrimage to Mecca, but increased sophistication and the price of a grandstand seat had served only to pitch his interest on a slightly more detached plane...
Murray lashed the House and Senate bills as "designed to: completely cripple Labor; destroy the Wagner Act; create confusion and industrial disturbances; create a system of totalitarianism equivalent to that which prevailed in other countries...