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...Blueprint. The I.L.G.W.U. was already taking on its distinctive character. The amazing Protocol of Peace, devised by young louis Brandeis to settle the cloakmakers' "Great Revolt" of 1910, was a blueprint years ahead of its time. Its borads of grievances and arbitration were precursors of the WLB and NLRB...
...slightly relaxed. The new Taft bill would also require management as well as union bosses to sign non-Communist affidavits ; lift Taf t-Hartley's ban on workers voting in a plant election while they were on strike; take away the independent, sometimes overweening authority of the NLRB's general counsel...
...year and a half. Avery, who was often in trouble with New Deal bureaus, soon found that he had plenty of use for a keen legal mind. Ball, a big (6 ft. 2½ in.) man with a smooth courtroom manner, saw Avery safely through his many scrapes with NLRB-including the one that led to the U.S. Army's wartime eviction of Avery and Government seizure of his plant...
...transportation, public utilities, coal, perhaps atomic energy projects. Some solution such as that proposed by Professor Slichter seems the most workable now. He recommends presidential power to call a "show-cause" hearing at which the parties would be required to demonstrate why they objected to the regular workings of NLRB-assisted mediation; then provision for a non-political emergency board to study and recommend a solution; and finally an authorization for the President to require a six-month trial operation period under the emergency board's recommendations...
...Taft-Hartley law was a hodge-podge and contained, to use the past tense, some long overdue reforms, such as the provisions for the filing of financial reports by unions and the strictures against jurisdictional disputes and secondary boycotts. Other sections simply wrote into law the decisions of the NLRB, as in the case of the provisions granting "free speech" to employers. Many sections of the law were misguided and reflected a failure to understand labor organizations, such as the requirements for union shop elections. Other sections, the ban on the closed shop, were interpreted by the labor unions...