Word: weirton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Collective bargaining and who should represent whom was the nub of the Weirton Steel case at Wilmington. For 14 months Industry on one side and Government and Labor on the other had been building up this court action into a major test, not only of Section 7a of NIRA but also of the deeper concept that the Federal Administration can control the minutest labor relations anywhere in the U. S. under that article of the Constitution which gives Congress the right to "regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States and with the Indian tribes...
Makings. The facts that went into the making of this issue were fairly simple. With the coming of the Blue Eagle, plant elections were indicated at Ernest Tener Weir's steel mills at Steubenville, Ohio, Clarksburg and Weirton, W. Va. At the last minute the old National Labor Board issued a new set of election rules which Mr. Weir rejected. Thereupon in December 1933 he held an election of his own which resulted in a thumping victory for Weirton Steel's company union. Disgruntled leaders of Amalgamated Iron, Steel & Tin Workers, an American Federation of Labor affiliate...
...according to .the bellicose Wisconsin Federation, had given organized Labor "the shabbiest treatment accorded to any set of people in recent years." Mr. Cummings was flayed for failing to prosecute NRA violators. "Only a single injunction suit has been brought by Mr. Cummings." said Judge Padway, "involving the Weirton case, and this one has been so badly bungled that it should never have been started...
...Washington "Madam Queen," also has many prerogatives. One of them, to wear tricorn hats, she has exercised for many a year. Another, to conciliate labor disputes, she has had since taking office but has not notably exercised. In the crowd of angry disputants in the automobile labor trouble, the Weirton Steel case, the Budd body strike, the Alabama miners' walkout, the Manhattan taxicab strike and many another, one might see the panama of NRA's General Johnson, the grey fedoras of the National Labor Board's Senator Wagner and Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor...
...have the right to represent all steel workers in a plant where a majority voted for union representation. Sooner or later it was evident that Miss Perkins was going to sit down with the steelmasters of the U. S.-Grace of Bethlehem, Taylor of U. S. Steel, Weir of Weirton, Girdler of Republic-and try her prowess as a labor peacemaker. Although a secret ballot of U. S. Steel's employes last week showed, according to Iron Age, that 95% of the company's employes opposed a strike, the bloodiness of all past steel strikes made the threat...