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...Under present procedure, NLRB has adjusted 93% of all cases without formal proceedings, complaints or hearings...
...other U. S. administrative agency in history has equaled NLRB's success in the courts...
Committee dissenters, ineffectual New Dealers Healey and Murdock, called the amendments "emasculatory." But emasculation was a long way off, for the case of NLRB was now dumped into the ample lap of handsome Mary Teresa Norton, who comes from Jersey City and Boss Frank Hague, and who looks 20 years less than her age (65). Chairwoman of the 21-man House Labor Committee, buxom Mrs. Norton snapped that it would have been "much more honest" of the Smith committee to propose outright repeal of the Wagner Act. Fearing that Mrs. Norton, in motherly fashion, would simply sit on the bill...
...when "Judge" Smith got his committee hearings under way last December, New Dealers stopped smiling. Wily Mr. Smith, not pretending to be a Bob La Follette or Tom Walsh, had his committee sit mostly as spectators, while a far abler inquisitor, cobra-cold Edmund Toland, dredged from NLRB's messy affairs one damaging fact after another. Infinitely painstaking, Mr. Toland in ten weeks' hearings wove a garish tapestry of the evidence, showed Board bias, incompetence, extra-legal activities...
...Create a new NLRB board of three members (salaries: $10,000 each...