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Last week vast, various General Motors had an election. In 59 of its plants, in eleven States, 128,957 workers voted on whether or not they should have a union (and which union) to bargain for them with their bosses. Six years ago, before the Wagner Act and NLRB, such an election would not have been possible in the U. S. Three years ago, before sitdowns and the slow, arduous lesson in industrial relations which followed, such an election could not have been held in General Motors. Last week, on corporation property, corporation time and with the corporation blessing...
...Dealers drew some comfort from the defeat of pompous, unpopular anti-New Deal Senator Edward Burke by popular Governor Roy L. Cochran in the Democratic primary. Burke had antagonized the farmers by voting against parity payments; Labor, by attacking NLRB; Czechs and Poles, by lauding Hitler; Germans, by voting for repeal of the arms embargo. The Republicans had turned down a New Dealer within their own ranks, Arthur J. Weaver, in favor of Grainman Hugh Butler of Omaha, who probably won because he spent enough money to get a professional organization. The Republicans confidently expected to beat Governor Cochran with...
...Received from Mary Norton's Labor Committee four compromise Wagner Act amendments: 1) to increase NLRB from three to five members, depriving Chairman J. Warren Madden and Member Edwin S. Smith of majority control; 2) to require NLRB to certify craft unions where a majority of affected workers so desire (thus pleasing A. F. of L., displeasing C. I. 0.); 3) to write into law the present NLRB practice which allows employers to petition for Board elections to settle rows between opposing unions; 4) to leave bargaining contracts in force for at least a year after they are signed...
...momentary fit of economy, the House clipped $337,000 off the $3,180,000 needed by the National Labor Relations Board, believing this a sure way to injure NLRB...
While this revelation damaged Mr. Witt and his protectors, the House Appropriations Committee and Virginia's Representative Howard W. Smith got their heads together over a plan to strike NLRB at a more vital point: its purse. The committee slashed the 1941 Budget estimates for NLRB from $3,180,000 to $2,843,000, scratched out entirely a $45,900 appropriation for NLRB's research division, which Labor-Economist Saposs heads. Even this damage failed to satisfy Tory Smith, who served notice he would move to strike out $23,700 for clerical help in the research branch...