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...Last week NLRB, which has no power to enforce its rulings, took the first step toward a Supreme Court decision, asked the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan to enforce its order against the hiring halls run by Joe Curran's National Maritime Union on the Great Leaks...
Died. Harry Alvin Millis, 75, onetime chairman of the National Labor Relations Board (1940-45); in Chicago. Longtime chairman of the University of Chicago's Economics Department and a labor mediator for some 30 years, he was one of the first three NLRB members on its creation in 1934, gave the board a much-needed shaking-up and reform...
Last week, the National Labor Relations Board closed the Taft-Hartley door with a bang. In a 3-2 decision it ruled that jt will no longer hold union shop elections in states which outlaw it. Such NLRB elections, the majority decided, "would lead only to the circumvention and frustration of State law." For labor leaders who rely on the union shop device to control and hold their memberships, it was a hard blow...
...Hoboken Jersey Observer, bargaining with the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild, wanted to exclude 23 newsmen from the collective bargaining unit. Because of their "greater responsibilities," said the paper, they were professional men like doctors and lawyers and should not be in a union. Ruled the NLRB: they were not required to have a license to practice, and didn't even have to go to college. So they were just hired help, like the paper's clerks and stenographers...
...Said NLRB's tough general counsel, Robert N. Denham: if Remington Rand signs a new contract with U.E., it does so at "its own peril." NLRB will not help to enforce it. Stormed U.E.'s Fitzgerald: "This is a call to arms to all employers to break contracts...