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...TIME'S readers' flub, other readers flubs become proportionately greater. The low identification for Cornell, Lewis, Stavisky and Wolman seems surprising-I readily identify all except F. Scott Fitzgerald...
Last week Dr. Leo Wolman's Automobile Labor Board took its own means of defending itself against the American Federation of Labor's onslaughts, over which President Roosevelt had taken the Federation publicly to task week before (TIME...
Motorland. Trouble had been brewing all last month, as Dr. Leo Wolman's Automobile Labor Board conducted plant elections throughout motorland. Last week in Detroit, 7,067 Chrysler employes balloted for candidates to represent them in collective bargaining with the management. Exactly 200 favored A. F. of I candidates. The result corresponded with those in other elections in motorland, in which to date 60,000 workers have voted. Less than 5% have supported A. F. of L. Not more than 9% have signified attachment to company unions. Bulk, 78%, have voted for unaffiliated representatives. The returns were bitter news...
...When the Wolman Board was formed, the Federation hoped that Dr. Wolman and A. F. of L.-Man Richard L. Byrd (Labor's voice on the Board) would help it organize the automobile industry. Instead, Messrs. Wolman, Byrd and the manufacturers' representative worked solidly together, played scrupulously fair with all hands in preparing the elections. Seeing how badly things were going, last month A. F. of L. repudiated the Wolman Board, ordered its members not to take part in the elections. Apparently this order was not obeyed, since 90% of those eligible to vote have voted...
...date of NRA's expiration, June 16. The President did not consult the A. F. of L., did not stipulate a 30-hr. week, did not abolish the hated merit clause. But what galled the Federation most was that, in renewing the Code, the President provided that the Wolman Board should continue to be binding on the industry...