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...personal despotism. The NRA was a horrible example. What is needed is a check-rein, a body to sit in judgment on the judicial angles of the work of a Labor Relations Board or a Federal Communications Commission. Obviously, the Supreme Court is that body. Recent cases involving the NLRB show a tendency to recognize its new duty. Necessary now is only increasing recognition that, in the Chief Justice's words, the function of the court is "not to dictate policy, not to promote or oppose crusades," but to provide the "quiet, deliberate and effective determination of an arbiter...
...National Labor Relations Board to find out: 1) whether the workers in 30 E. J. plants wanted a union, and 2) if so, which one. The organizers, pointing out that votes against George F. would be harder than ever to get while he lay ill, vainly begged NLRB to postpone the balloting. A. F. of L.'s President William Green did not help either union when he declaimed at Binghamton last fortnight, telling George F.'s flock that C. I. O. was a Communist hotbed...
...Join Up-No Union." Protestant preachers, Catholic priests, Salvation Army chaplains had special prayer meetings for George F.'s recovery. Two days before election, word came that George F. was feeling better. Election day, after George F.'s workers had voted from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., NLRB tellers counted the ballots in the George F. Pavilion. That night good news went to the old man's yellow frame house on the hill: 1,612 had voted for the A. F. of L. union, 1,079 for C. I. O., 12,693 for George...
Young & old, baggy & neat, bright & dull, the men and women of Session III of the 76th Congress came together last week faced with election year and these issues: 1) renewal of the reciprocal trade agreements (see above); 2) the Budget and taxes; 3) National Defense; 4) proposals to curb NLRB; 5) relief appropriations; 6) amendments to the Wage-Hour...
...Overhaul the Wagner Act and/or NLRB on the showings of House Investigator Howard Smith (TIME...