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...appointed a "blue ribbon" committee of management lawyers to research Labor Board "violations" of management rights. Their report launched broadside attacks against the procedure and integrity of the Labor Board, accusing it of blatant pro-unionism. "Legislative remedy," it said, "should be aimed at the chief offender--the NLRB itself...
...causes, joined the campaign. (Hill and Knowlton formerly represented such clients as the gun lobby, the tobacco lobby, and the steel industry during the 1937, 1952, and 1959 strikes.) Under their direction, pamphlets of anti-labor research material were sent to newspaper writers around the county to encourage anti-NLRB editorials...
Further, a wide range of groups angry with the Supreme Court might, presumably, join in any attack that sets the precedent of stripping the Court of any part of its jurisdiction. (The "reformers" also propose to end the Court's power of review over NLRB findings.) Finally, though the "new" Republican Party is avowedly not the party of business, a Republican Congress will show little sympathy for the union movement that is its economic antagonist and the backbone of the Democrats...
Other seemingly trivial practices such as forbidding workers to pass out union publicity on company premises can cripple an organizing drive. Yet Federal legislation has never specifically defined an "unfair labor practice." Without a policy-making organ like the NLRB to decide what is specifically prohibited, injustices will flourish without remedy...
...abolition of the Labor Board will also restore turn-of-the-century government by injunction. At present, most complaints of unfair labor practices are settled by an NLRB field office informally, without adversary proceedings. Complaints that do require decision are represented without cost by the Board's legal staff...