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...Supreme Court refused to review Ford's appeal from a Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decision. The decision had ordered the Ford Motor Co. to reinstate 23 employes who NLRB had found were discharged for union activity. Many months might elapse before Maverick Ford could be saddled and ridden, like other well-regulated industrial horses; many more before he would work in harness with labor and the Government. But the Supreme Court ruling made the Ford Motor Co. and all Ford officials subject to unlimited contempt of court sentences by the Sixth Circuit Court if they intimidate, coerce, threaten...
...undercut the Chrysler subsidiary by $250,000. But Henry Ford had refused to sign the provisions of the War Department's Procurement Circular No. 43 which would have bound it to comply with State and Federal labor laws. Found guilty over & over again by NLRB of unfair labor practices, Henry Ford has appealed to the U. S. Supreme Court, meanwhile takes the view that he is not bound by Labor Board rulings until the Supreme Court says...
...press conference, he put his mood in a parable about Ford Motor Co. According to the NLRB and a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Ford has violated the Wagner Act. Yet the company has received contracts to make aircraft engines, a fleet of tiny armored cars for the Army...
...President stopped there. He left the correspondents to finish his parable, draw its moral : that of course Ford Motor Co. was up to its ears in trouble with NLRB, but the U. S. now had a higher objective. The objective was national de fense, and that objective was going to be attained, regardless of Ford Motor Co.'s labor policy...
...said Mr. Barkley, "what its passage will do to all the agencies of the Government. . . . The more one discusses it, the less he understands it." Brighter Senators than Alben Barkley agreed, wearily passed (27-to-25) a measure which could subject any act, rule, decision of such agencies as NLRB, SEC, FCC, TVA and many others to court review...