Word: wagnerism
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...claims 35,000-odd members and has a sorry history of schisms and Communist infiltration, is the only nationwide teachers union (though C.I.O. has recently set up a National Teachers Division of its State, County and Municipal Workers of America). As public servants, teachers are not protected by the Wagner Act. In Covington, Ky., a Kentucky colonel who had taught a high-school class for 17 years was demoted recently to a fourth-grade job largely because of his A.F.T. activities. In Arlington Heights, Ill., 14 of a total of 28 teachers have been fired or asked to resign...
Professor Gropius added his doubts to those of his colleagues, George H. Perkins '26, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Chairman of the Department of Regional Planning, and Martin Wagner, associate professor of Regional Planning, and said he thought the School for Architecture and John B. Atkinson, city manager of Cambridge, were not working toward the same object...
Helen Traubel, Brünnhildean prima donna, was presented with a seven-year-old white stallion, White Ghost, by Circus Czar Robert Ringling, promptly cast him as "Grane" in the Metropolitan Opera's Götterdämmerung. The horse, a professional dancer, found nothing in Wagner to make him kick up his heels...
Important to labor, which fears an all-out assault to emasculate the Wagner Act at war's end, was the promise of the C. of C. president that: "The fundamental rights of labor to organize . . . and collective bargaining . . . shall be preserved, free from legislative enactments...
...timid old lady crossing a street, the National Labor Relations Board has not been able to make up its mind on the knotty problem of foremen's unions. Last week it changed its mind again. This time it said foremen have the right to organize under the Wagner Act, a flat reversal of its ruling two years ago. Foremen, once regarded as bosses, were now held to be employes with no managerial power...