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Both management and labor knew that the issue had to be joined eventually. Sooner or later the National Labor Relations Board would have to make one of its biggest decisions since the Taft-Hartley Act became law last summer. Last week, plainly following the letter of the law, NLRB did. It ruled that an employer has no legal obligation to deal with a union whose leaders have refused to sign affidavits that they are not Communists...
...largest Communist-dominated union in the land. U.E.'s leaders, from big-bellied Al Fitzgerald down, have denounced the law's non-Communist clause with furious fervor, have refused to sign the affidavits. This week the company, on the strength of the NLRB ruling, severed relations with U.E., despite an agreement which runs until April...
...policy of many CIO locals, he added, will be to strike if the NLRB certificates are demanded by employers. He stressed that this policy has been formed "completely independently" of the other section of the law requiring the filling of affidavits of political affiliations by union heads...
...explosive issue. Under a ruling by Robert Denham, general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, no union of either the A.F.L. or the C.I.O. could use the NLRB unless all of its top officers signed affidavits. Lewis explained his refusal boldly: the way to beat the Taft-Hartley Act was to ignore it completely, even to boycotting the NLRB. Other hot-eyed labor leaders had a different interpretation-Lewis, whose miners seldom used the board, was attempting to use the Taft-Hartley Act as an instrument to dominate all of labor...
Aces for Shippers. In Washington, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Taft-Hartley law superseded all previous NLRB decisions on foremen; no employer was now required to bargain with them. Bolstering this was a dockside opinion from Harry Lundeberg, boss of the A.F.L. sailors' union on the Pacific, and an enemy of Bridges. Said Lundeberg: "This is a phony beef...