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...Associates went right on buying anyway, rubbed it into wary union officials by assigning their voting rights to Bill Jack and Vice President Ralph Heintz as trustees. When the V-J layoffs started, the squabble broke out again, this time over veteran seniority provisions. Result: Jahco must appear before NLRB on charges of "coercing" its associates by interfering with the election of union officials...
...told them that they would have unquestioned authority in their fields. Clint Anderson, for instance, also becomes War Food Administrator and will thus be the nation's absolute food czar in fact as well as in name. Washington dopesters thought it only a matter of time until WLB, NLRB and the National Mediation Board would be put under the new Secretary of Labor...
...made the board flip-flop was Detroit's pugnacious young Foremen's Association of America, an independent union. To enforce its bargaining demands, it had called a series of strikes in Detroit's war plants (TIME, May 15-22), hog-tied war production. By giving in, NLRB hopefully expects to avoid further "industrial strife." But the dissenting board member, Gerard D. Reilly, snapped that the ruling smacks of a "peace-at-any-price" policy...
...industry, the price may be high. The F.A.A., which has gone right on organizing without benefit of NLRB, now claims 36,000 members. With NLRB help, it now hopes to organize all supervisory employes in U.S. industry-unless NLRB changes its mind again...
...this unprecedented undertaking, the National Labor Relations Board will have to concentrate its entire field staff and hire a few additional thousand employes. Accountants figured out that this operation, whose conclusion is obvious to anyone (i.e., a thumping "aye" vote); would cost the U.S. $300,000. The NLRB has not got that much money. Congress will have to appropriate...