Word: nlrb
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Smith left his job as Massachusetts' commissioner of labor and industries and went to Washington as one of the three members of the original National Labor Relations Board. During the next seven years, the New Deal-blessed labor-organizing drive reached flood tide, and with it, the NLRB rose to influence large areas of the U.S. economy. The A.F.L. accused the board of being blatantly pro-C.I.O., and one A.F.L. leader declared that his union would "refuse to abide by NLRB decisions until Edwin S. Smith* is investigated to see if he isn't more interested...
Last week Edwin S. Smith went to Washington again, to appear before a Senate Internal Security subcommittee investigating past and present Communist infiltration. Asked whether he had been "a secret member of the Communist Party" during his NLRB days, he refused to answer, on the ground that he might incriminate himself. Asked what he does for a living, he explained that he imports and distributes newsphotographs, books and records from behind the Iron Curtain. He added...
Recently, however, the NLRB was called upon to consider one of the low blows struck at United Aircraft Corp.'s North Haven, Conn. plant, where the workers decided by a vote of 935 to 873 last October that they would rather join the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers than the A.F.L.'s International Association of Machinists. During the campaign I.A.M. representatives charged that the U.A.W. was "communistic." In reply, U.A.W. men two days before election, began to distribute copies of a purported telegram in which I.A.M. President Al Hayes, praised C.I O. President Walter Reuther for speareading...
Last week, concluding that the U.A W was guilty of "deliberate deception" and that even the most elastic definition of "legitimate propaganda" would not stretch enough to cover fake telegrams, the NLRB ordered a new election at North Haven...
Publishers have been fighting bogus as a violation of the National Labor Relations Act. They argue it forces them to pay for a service that is unquestionably of no value to them, that it is a violation of the act's anti-featherbedding clause. Before the NLRB and the courts, contradictory decisions have been handed down. After the Supreme Court hears the case this week, A.N.P.A. hopes to get a clear decision against bogus...