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Three years ago Jones sat in an NLRB hearing as witness in the intramural squabble among Hollywood screenwriters. Rambling on for two days he told his story. Reprinted, the transcript emerged as the best history of Hollywood to date-impudent, humorous, honest. Excerpts...
...Illinois Light bought tear-gas guns and shells; that no fewer than three of the Willkie companies were clients of the biggest espionage agency devoted solely to industrial work. Mr. Flynn also charged that Consumers Power Co. and Alabama Power Co., both Commonwealth & Southern subsidiaries, were found guilty by NLRB "of interfering with the rights of their employes," that Consumers Power, after signing a contract with C. I. O., launched a "determined antiC. I. O. offensive" which "continued unrelentingly right up to the day the Republicans picked Mr. Willkie, when, by coincidence, the management suddenly began acting with sweet reasonableness...
...NLRB Favoritism? No. The Smith Committee revelations have shown glaring flaws in NLRB's personnel ("arrogant, fresh-from-law-school people, very wet behind the ears"), but it has not favored C. I. O. over A. F. of L. But both organizations have reached the "heights of madness" in dealing with the board...
...NLRB favoritism and tyranny...
...began when the dominant A. F. of L. union of United Saw, File & Steel Products Workers called a walkout- ostensibly for a union shop and a 10% pay rise, really to bring recalcitrant members of the C. I. O. Steel Workers Organizing Committee union (recently defeated in an NLRB election at the plant) into line. Glum at having their party called off, Disston workers trod their picket line without bitterness. Said one laconic oldtimer: "Well, they wanted a closed shop-and they...