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While working with the NLRB, Herzog gained an acute insight into the problems of labor and management. "Essentially the job was one of administrating the laws established by the Congress which affect labor. During the first two years of my span in the post I worked with the Wagner Act and spent the remaining six with the Taft-Hartley...
Durkin's resignation sprung from a dispute over changes in sections of the Tafe-Hartley law. Herzog and the four other members of the NLRB used that law in making over 10,000 decisions on specific labor issues over the past five years. Remaking about his opinion of the law, Herzog said, "If I had thought it was a slave labor law I wouldn't have stayed on six years to administrate it. On the other hand if I had thought that it was perfect, I wouldn't have testified before Congress this spring for changes...
JUNE 17. George Meany, president of the A.F.L., studied the 16-point list and raised two objections: he repeated Durkin's point and also balked at a provision to replace the NLRB with a "Labor Court." These were small points, and it looked as if the A.F.L.'s (and therefore Durkin's) approval could easily be obtained. But Department of Commerce General Counsel Stephen F. Dunn, representing the management viewpoint, objected to omissions from the list...
...unions want the all-important services of the National Labor Relations Board. Last week a federal grand jury in Washington, convinced by the Justice Department that Gold's conversion was no more than skin-deep, indicted him on the charge that he had perjured himself by signing the NLRB affidavit. Had the grand jury delayed one more day the statute of limitations would have rendered 55-year-old Ben Gold immune to prosecution...
...Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board: Guy Farmer, 41. A hardworking, white-haired labor lawyer, Farmer served as an NLRB lawyer during Franklin Roosevelt's Administration. Later, in private practice, he represented management clients, but kept the respect of labor unions by scrupulously fair courtroom performances...