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...Washington '43, Clarksburg, W. Va.; Robert K. Weary '43, Junction City, Kans.; George W. Webber '42, Des Moines, Ia.; Richard L. Weinberg '43, Memphis, Tenn.; Emanuel G. Weiss '41, Elkins Park, Pa.; Floyd G. Werner '43, Ottawa, III.; Homer C. Wick, Jr. '41, Washington, D. C.; William H. Witt '41, Seattle, Wash.; and Joseph M. Young '43, Greenville, Miss
...Herbert Witt, national executive secretary of the Union, said concerning the Walkout, "the decisive hour for American undergraduates is not approaching--it is here." In his call he specifically stigmatized as efforts to involve the United States in war the plan to train Canadian pilots on American soil, the proposed sale of "flying fortresses," and the recent dispatch of fifty naval destroyers for combat service in England...
...resigned in a letter charging that NLRB's "entire record is replete with rotten radicalism." He added that Mr. Saposs' lecture "was quite in keeping with your smelly Fansteel decision in which you sought to bestow a paternal benediction on sit-down strikes." Board Secretary Nathan Witt forthwith fired Mr. Davidson for his "false and scurrilous letter." This made Mr. Davidson really mad. "How can they fire me? I quit first...
...reform it. Last August NLRB Trouble Shooter William Leiserson forced the Board to examine its own efficiency. Four NLRB regional directors studied the evidence for 60 days, in October severely indicted the Board's administrative methods, policies, machinery, recommended specific changes, many of them aimed at unpopular Secretary Witt. OverDr. Leiserson's protest, Boardmen Edwin S. Smith and J. Warren Madden pigeonholed the report...
While this revelation damaged Mr. Witt and his protectors, the House Appropriations Committee and Virginia's Representative Howard W. Smith got their heads together over a plan to strike NLRB at a more vital point: its purse. The committee slashed the 1941 Budget estimates for NLRB from $3,180,000 to $2,843,000, scratched out entirely a $45,900 appropriation for NLRB's research division, which Labor-Economist Saposs heads. Even this damage failed to satisfy Tory Smith, who served notice he would move to strike out $23,700 for clerical help in the research branch...