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Bits of the blistering argument leaked out. It was all very well, said one council member, for the great John Lewis, sitting astride a union that dominated an entire industry, to defy the NLRB; he could not get hurt. But what about the small unions which have many cases pending before the NLRB? John Lewis' refusal to play ball would mean that every A.F.L. local might have to forfeit its right to go to the NLRB for help in disputes with employers. The Great Man's answer shocked some of his listeners: it was a heresy...
When the council's meeting broke up, John Lewis strode off alone. His vote was enough in itself to nullify the other members' willingness to take the oath. Under the strict interpretation of the NLRB's General Counsel Robert Denham, every top officer must sign or no affiliated union may come before the NLRB. (This week Dan Tobin signed the affidavit anyway, sent his lawyer to Washington to contend that the Teamsters should be allowed to use the NLRB...
...year-old Robert N. Denham, who will be a sort of czar over U.S. labor relations as the board's general counsel. He likes the law; some of his ideas were incorporated in it. Republican Bob Denham thinks he can make the law work. The five new NLRB members, who will sit as robeless judges but will have little authority in enforcing the law, do not share Denham's enthusiasm...
Side-Steppers. Labor's defiance of the Act and its boycotting of the NLRB promised little for the NLRB to do in the immediate future, unless Bob Denham forced some action. Nobody else, particularly employers, seemed to want to get tough. In fact, just the opposite was the case. In advance of Taft-Hartley Day last week, many employers helped unions to beat the law's deadline and to evade some of its provisions...
...increase plus six paid holidays or a 7?-an-hour pay boost along with a pension plan (TIME, Aug. 11). Ford had the U.A.W. over a barrel; if it failed to sign by midnight, the U.A.W. would be forced to give up its union shop or go to the NLRB for an election on it. At 11:59 p.m. the U.A.W. had not made up its mind. Obligingly, Ford signed a contract which would put the choice up to a workers' vote...