Word: wolman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neutral member of the board was picked by President Roosevelt. As Labor and Industry's representatives, zealous to serve their constituencies, were expected to be deadlocked most of the time, this third member became a man of decisive importance. He was Dr. Leo Wolman, chairman of NRA's Labor Advisory Board and a member of the National Labor Board...
Like many New Dealers Dr. Wolman is a professor, a graduate of Johns Hopkins, a teacher at Columbia, an expert on statistics. He is also a labor man. Until last year he was known in public life as the economic adviser of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. As such he supported a course largely contrary to that of the A. F. of L. He strongly advocates industrial (vertical) unions as opposed to craft (horizontal) unions of the A. F. of L. type...
Only six weeks ago Dr. Wolman, outdone with the Labor Board's support of the A. F. of L. system, resigned. Only strong pleas from General Johnson got him to withdraw his resignation. Labor man he is but he does not rub shoulders with the labor men whom open-shop industrialists most dislike and distrust. Nor is he a believer in the regimentation of industry. In Washington he has been an anomaly, for he is firmly pro-labor and equally firm in believing that labor fares best under a sound capitalistic system...
Within 48 hours after their appointment Dr. Wolman convened his fellow members in Detroit, and began to receive a half hundred union complaints against discrimination by automobile manufacturers. Promptly he made two announcements: 1) "Rules of evidence will not bother us. We will . . . let the men tell their stories in their own words." 2) "In order to avoid friction . . . there should not be any solicitation for membership in either unions or company representation plans during working hours...
...Columbia University, that yeasty pot of progressive ideas, President Roosevelt dipped such potent Brain Trusters as Raymond Moley, Rexford Tugwell, Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. (see p. 55), Abraham S. Hewitt, Leo Wolman, Blackwell Smith. But Columbia was still left with a good supply of bright young professors who were disgruntled with the old order, passionately dedicated to the new. Last week many of them moved in a body to Cleveland, where the Progressive Education Association and the National Education Association's Department of Superintendence were convening. There they planted in the educational world the same kind of ideas which...