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...brief moment, Labor beheld the dawn of a millennial day. But the cream of the country's lawyers confidently advised employers to pay no heed to NLRB rulings. When the Supreme Court upheld the Wagner Act, tories and liberals alike were dazed. Labor's Magna Charta would work. Antiunionism was powerless...
...months before the Court decision, NLRB had been able to hold only 76 plant elections in which workers chose their own unions. In the next 12 months there were 1,142. The rush was on. In the rush, A. F. of L. brother fought C. I. O. brother. To rule between hard-boiled employers and hard-boiled union chiefs, NLRB sent many a radical young theorist, many an idealist who saw everything in black (employers) & white (workers). No Abraham Lincoln was on hand to design a just and tolerant reconstruction. The carpetbaggers swarmed in, and the night riders. NLRB ruled...
...July 1939 the House authorized an investigation of NLRB, to be led by Virginia's Howard W. Smith, an oldfashioned, seldom-spoken Democrat whose district is rural except for about 2,000 Alexandria railroadmen who always vote against him anyway, if they have an alternative. "Judge" Smith's country-lawyer shrewdness was underrated only by New Dealers, who laughed at his wing collar, ribboned pince-nez and air of extreme, Coolidge-like caution...
...labor the report hacked chiefly at the New Deal's harried National Labor Relations Board, suggested an overhauling of the NLRAct-specifically, a separation of the judicial and administrative functions of NLRB...
...time he reached Miami's Bayfront Park, where 4,000 oldsters and youngsters heard him castigate NLRB ("a new one ... on which employers and employes are represented rather than left-wing enthusiasts") ; Trade Treaties ("The Republican Party believes in imposing and retaining a tariff equal to the difference in cost of production abroad . . ."); SEC ("amended to be what it was intended to be, a protection against fraud, and not a weapon [of] the Government"); the Wage-Hour Law ("Nothing [so] threatens to throttle small business today . . ."); Social Security's payroll tax ("particularly oppressive"), Bob Taft was well into...