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When Congress enacted the War Labor Disputes Act in June 1943, it gave the National Labor Relations Board the sole right to conduct the strike ballots. Last week NLRB gave an accounting of its first year's stewardship under the Act's terms. Some findings...
...each of the strike ballots, NLRB asked the employes: "Do you wish to permit an interruption of war production in wartime as a result of this dispute?" Seventy-one percent voted...
...union-shy Donald Douglas suggested that instead they start a class for administration personnel at the factory. Wanous and Brown agreed, called in WLB officials as additional faculty, and embarked on an 18-week course of weekly classes. Taking off in rough weather just after Douglas had lost an NLRB election to the C.I.O., with many of Douglas' supervisors strongly antiunion, Wanous and Brown's factual, informative discussions were so successful that the C.I.O. promptly asked for classes for its organizers, shop stewards and unit chairmen...
...free speech under labor's Magna Carta-the Wagner Act. Said Jackson: "I must admit that in overriding the findings of the Texas court we are applying to Thomas a rule the benefit of which in all its breadth and vigor this court denies to employers in NLRB cases. . . . However, the remedy is not to allow Texas improperly to deny the right of free speech but to apply the same rule and spirit to free speech whoever the speaker...
Businessmen, looking forward to the next employer appeal from an adverse NLRB ruling, hoped that at least four of Justice Jackson's colleagues would agree...