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Three hours after the press conference, with a haste almost as noticeable as that with which it had bundled Sewell Avery out of his plant, the Government returned Montgomery Ward to its owners. The President had not even waited for the NLRB election ballots to be counted. (The union won, hands down...
...case was typical of hundreds brought by NLRB during the great labor-management fights of the late 19305. After the company had dissolved its company union in 1942 at NLRB direction, shock-haired, persevering President Edward G. Budd wrote a letter to the 15,000 employes of his Philadelphia plant suggesting that the company union was a pretty good thing after all. He pointed out that in ten years it had raised the base-pay rate from 55? to $1.09 an hour. The C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers, working to unionize the plant, screamed "coercion" and got NLRB...
When the case was heard in oral argument fortnight ago, NLRB Attorney A. Norman Somers told the court that if the letter were not judged an act of contempt, NLRB was "about to . throw in the sponge." Retorted Judge Charles Alvin Jones: "Where is the prohibition against a man saying he doesn't like a labor organization?" He proceeded to contradict the common understanding of the Wagner Act's ban on free speech for employers...
...eleven plants went right on working, but at slower pace. Most Detroiters knew that a job without a foreman eventually gets tangled, slows down, finally stops. NLRB hastily tried to make up its mind on two pending cases which will clear up the old, knotty question of a foreman's relations with his bosses...
This week two issues in the Montgomery Ward case would approach decision. NLRB, acting with unprecedented swiftness, ordered an election to determine the union's right of representation. District Judge William H. Holly promised a ruling -sure to be appealed-on the Government's right of seizure...