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...Weir and Mr. Budd, who head the Budd Manufacturing Company in Philadelphia, are the especial targets of Mrs. Pinchot's attack. The Budd company has openly defied the code provisions of the NRA, and the complaints against them have been referred back and forth, with an agonizing inconstancy, from the Department of Justice to the National Labour Board. When Mrs. Pinchot wired to Senator Wagner of the Labour Board, an assistant wired back a request for affidavits, although several thousands of affidavits were already in the hands of the Board, and as many more with the Department of Justice...
...President summoned to the White House Ernest Tener Weir, chairman of Weirton Steel Co. (National Steel), ordered him to settle the labor row in his mills (TIME, Dec. 25). He also received Rev. Charles E. Coughlin of Detroit. When the priest emerged from the White House, he reported: "I discovered that Mr. Roosevelt is about 20 years ahead of the thought that is current in the country today...
...Depression paragon is National Steel -only major steel company able to keep its plants running profitably throughout the dark days. Its presiding genius is Ernest Tener Weir who also chairmans subsidiary Weirton Steel of Weirton, W. Va. Last week white-crested Founder Weir got a sizzling telegram from NRAdministrator Johnson: ''You are about to commit a deliberate violation of Federal laws and ... if you do so, I shall request the Attorney General to proceed against you immediately." Founder Weir proceeded to commit the "violation," then settled down in his Pittsburgh home to read (for the lost time...
When, two days before last week's Weirton primaries, the "procedure" rules came from the Labor Board, Founder Weir grew warm under his collar...
...Weir was willing to consent to having "non-employes' " names on the ballots, so that A. F. of L.'s Amalgamated Iron, Steel & Tin Workers Union delegates might be eligible, but he drew the line at voting "ex-employes." He also refused to abandon the secret ballot in favor of the petition system. Deeming that such procedure rules would give outside A. F. of L. men undue advantage, he brusquely notified the Board: "We must consider any arrangement with you terminated...