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...list of its employes for the National Labor Board to hold a poll on union preference. Promptly the leaders of the A. F. of L. steel union marched to the White House and filed a protest with the President: "Even if this proceeding wins it does not force Weir to deal with our union. "We wish to point out, secondly, that this court proceeding may last a year until the NRA is over. . . . "Finally, therefore, we call upon you to get Weir to comply with the NRA within 48 hours or get the Wagner bill passed this week or else...
...years ago: the Francqui Prize of 500.000 francs ($23,000) for scientific work of such importance as to boost Belgium's prestige. Donor of the award, second only to the Nobel Prize, is Emile Francqui, banker, one of Europe's dozen richest men. ¶Died. Hugh Cosgro Weir, 49, publisher, author; after a long illness; in Manhattan. A telegram to Carl Laemmle Sr. brought Mr. Weir a job writing scripts for Pearl White. Ruth Roland, et al. With Catherine McNelis he founded an advertising agency in 1928, later published and distributed through 5 & 10? stores the five Tower...
...laborers exactly the same backing; it is for this reason a useless doctrine in the solution of particular controversies. The organic state would treat the Weirton struggle as an industrial fact, and solve it in either of the two ways which its organic character might indicate; Mr. Weir and the labor delegation have each presented the extreme solutions, and it is between these extreme solutions, and not on any middle ground, that an effective government must choose. POLLUX...
...President intervened and proud Mr. Weir went to the White House. There he remained polite and firm. When the President au- thorized the Labor Board to hold its own election Mr. Weir refused to supply a list of employes. Nor would Mr. Weir recognize the officials of the A. F. of L. Steel Union. For a showdown on a question of principle, the Labor Board finally cited him to the Attorney General for failure to permit it to hold an orderly election. Now the case will be settled in court. If Mr. Weir wins it will be a sad setback...
...through the reactionary dictatorship of fascism. And he will be attacked, ever more and more, by the liberals who believe in his ends, as they realize the futility of the means which he has chosen to achieve them. If all the nation's industrialists were as realistic as Mr. Weir and Mr. Budd, if all saw as they do the weakness of Mr. Roosevelt's position, we should not have to wait so long for that crescendo in which the basic theme of our social structure will finally become manifest...