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...Southern Democrats defeated two of these, while the others got into the line of Congressional and lobby fire. Opponents of the proposals claim that in some cases the President has modified the original Commission recommendations out of existence. Truman's plan No. 12 (to centralize authority in the NLRB) which they cite as an example, did not have the support of the Citizens Committee for the Hoover Reports. This voluble nation-wide organization, ex-officio publicity outlet for many members of the Commission, states that the Commission never proposed this change...
...NLRB ruled that when the information is demanded for collective-bargaining purposes, a company must give a union complete payroll data for a full year on all its employees in the bargaining unit represented by the union-including non-union as well as union workers. Unions, said the NLRB, needed such facts "to bargain intelligently...
Tacoma-born George Shaw Wheeler, 41, his wife and four children, got to Czechoslovakia just before the Communist coup of February 1948. A U.S. Government employee since 1934 (NLRB, Department of Labor, War Production Board), Wheeler had served in a moderately important job with the U.S. Military Government in Germany. After two years and several loyalty investigations, he was fired in an economy drive. Wheeler went to Prague, got a job teaching economics in Charles University, wrote articles for the small Wallaceite National Guardian...
...Privileges, No Contract. In a federal court in Washington Judge Richmond Keech slapped an injunction on Lewis, ordered him not to ask for certain arbitrary privileges in a coal contract until the NLRB could decide whether such demands were unfair labor practices under the Taft-Hartley law. Lewis hadn't specifically made such demands, but for more than eight months negotiations had been stalemated because everyone knew that Lewis wouldn't sign unless he got them. The privileges were: an illegal union shop; limiting of the miners' welfare fund to members of the U.M.W.; a clause saying...
...Labor Relations Board had ruled against the Meier & Frank department store, Portland's biggest advertiser, the store canceled most of its ads (TIME, Jan. 23). On Page One, the Oregonian proudly defied M. & F.'s threat to its freedom and honesty-and went right on reporting further NLRB developments. Last week M. & F. unconditionally surrendered; it quietly resumed its normal advertising schedule in the Oregonian...