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PEACEFUL PICKETS may not be punished if fellow pickets riot on the picket line, says the U.S. Court of Appeals. In a case involving strikers against the B.V.D. Co., the court overturned an NLRB decision penalizing peaceful strikers by not giving them their jobs back...
...Favoritism to big business . . . Government agencies have been put in the hands of businessmen. The Federal Power Commission includes two men who formerly represented private utilities; the National Labor Relations Board includes two lawyers who formerly represented management in cases before the NLRB as well as a former Taft assistant who helped push the Taft-Hartley law through Congress; the Securities and Exchange Commission includes two former stockbrokers, a former investment banker, and two lawyers whose firms represent major brokerage houses; the Federal Trade Commission's first G.O.P. chairman formerly represented companies in price-discrimination brought...
UNION'S RIGHT to inspect an employer's books will be decided for the first time by the U.S. Supreme Court. A Federal Appeals Court overturned a National Labor Relations Board ruling that a Greensboro, N.C. steelmaker must open his books to a bargaining committee, and NLRB is appealing...
PERFECT CIRCLE STRIKE, in which eight employees were wounded last month at New Castle, Ind., has lost members for the U.A.W.C.I.O. In an NLRB election at Perfect Circle's three plants in Richmond and Hagerstown, Ind., the majority of employees voted against the union. The U.A.W. still represents strikers at one Perfect Circle plant...
...exert too much influence on company policy if union members own large amounts of stock. Another big worry is that unions will take over a program, make it a part of their wage bargaining. In a recent case involving California's Richfield Oil Corp., the NLRB ruled that a company-aided stock-buying program was in effect a boost in wages and thus came under collective-bargaining rules. The case is being appealed in the Federal Court, but many businessmen are skittish about starting programs under such conditions...