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This time Curley wriggled under the hottest spotlight he has yet faced- indictment by a Federal grand jury. The charge: Curley and five other men (including Donald Wakefield Smith, a former member of NLRB) used the mails to mulct suckers through a war-contracts racket called Engineers Group, Inc. The company claimed an ability to wangle equally fat contracts for new clients. Fees as high as $9,000 were accepted. Actually, the Government charges: Engineers Group has no advisory board, no contracts, no legal ability to get contracts...
...trying to gain control at the Allis-Chalmers plant in Springfield, Ill., where C.I.O. already has a contract. District 50 was in the minority when the contract was signed, but now contends it has since signed up a majority of employes. It has asked for a new plant election. NLRB, operating under the clear provision of the Wagner Act, that majority rule is the democratic way for labor, said no. Last week, as the result of Biddle's opinion, NLRB changed its mind, accepted District so's request for a strike vote at Allis-Chalmers. The balloting will...
Besides District 50's, 32 other requests for strike votes were before NLRB last week when Biddle wrote his opinion. With the air of a man telling Congress "you asked for it," Biddle declared...
...bill was loosely drawn; it also contradicted itself. It forbade strikes in war plants, yet set up a legal method for voting on strikes. It would not simplify labor relations: unions would have to tell their troubles to WLB, NLRB and Labor-Secretary Frances Perkins. It might wreck WLB: a section provided that no member of WLB shall have "a direct interest as an officer, employe or representative of either party to the dispute." Would this disbar WLB's four labor members, who are members of A.F. of L. and C.I.O...
...stake. To perform its function of directing production, management has to have not only officers but noncommissioned officers, just as much as an army does. But in most industries foremen, although they still direct production, no longer directly exercise the power to hire & fire. For this reason, apparently, NLRB last year decided that foremen are just a special grade of skilled labor and entitled to the privileges of labor...