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...workable. Questions of bargaining units, representatives, union security, final strike offers would be "subject to election after election," all supervised by the NLRB. The effect would be to create a "fiveyear backlog" of election cases, making the disputants "turn in despair from peaceful procedures to economic force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Labor's Advocate | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...fair. "The bill prescribes unequal penalties for the same offense. It would require the NLRB to give priority to charges against workers over related charges against employers. It would discriminate against workers by arbitrarily penalizing them for all critical strikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Labor's Advocate | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...amendments restricting industrywide bargaining and requiring all union welfare funds (such as the U.M.W.'s) to be administered by employers as well as union officials. But he had backed down on his amendment allowing employers to go directly to a federal court for injunctions, instead of through the NLRB...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Changed Outlook | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...date. The House passed Harold Knutson's tax reduction bill, thus immeasurably speeding up a final determination of the tax question. It also shouted through a cut-rate Labor-Federal Security Appropriation bill, over attempts to scuttle the U.S. Conciliation Service, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the NLRB. The House joined the Senate in extending a modified Second War Powers Act until June 30, ending Selective Service, and appropriating $9,000,000 to help Mexico fight its foot-&-mouth disease epidemic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Apr. 7, 1947 | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

Leon Clausen, president of J. I. Case Co. (farm machinery), is a rugged individualist. The Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Labor, the NLRB, the regional WLB and the Mayor of Racine had all failed to break down his stubbornness. But Clausen had his own views on how to settle the strike of 3,500 U.A.W. workers at his company's Racine (Wis.) plant. His solution, as reported by a committee of machinery-starved farmers: "When these men have been out long enough and their families get hungry enough, the strike will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Hungry Enough? | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

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