Word: wirtz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wirtz suggested that economic and social aspects of the employer-employee problem be considered "rather than just precedents set by law." This approach, he said, would materially aid in the solution of the country's labor problems...
Calling the principles behind collective bargaining "more fundamental than any laws," W. Williard Wirtz '37, Chairman of the Wage Stabilization Board, yesterday told a meeting of the Law Forum in Langdell Court Room that the law has done much to retard progress towards a workable labor-management relationship...
Earlier in the day, Wirtz told newsmen that the Supreme Court decision against John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers had almost no significance beyond the specific legal facts involved. He admitted, however, that the State Courts might take advantage of the apparent right to issue injunctions while they decided whether a strike was legal...
With the right of the miners to strike abrogated while the government retains control of the mines, Wirtz said he did not know how such a settlement could be reached, but retained his position that the return would be made early...
...Wirtz also predicted that the Court decision would not be a "go-head" signal to Republican leadership in Congress...