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...mass meeting in the Chicago Coliseum. John Lewis was ready to move against Armour, second packer in the Big Four. In 17 Armour plants from St. Paul to Los Angeles to Birmingham, Ala. to Milwaukee, the Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee had either been named sole bargaining agent by the NLRB or claimed a majority...
...labor conditions in his plant, than to fight the case. Hartley Wade Barclay, editor of the industrial monthly Mill and Factory discovered one big reason why this is true. Intrigued by wholesale capitulation of small business in labor cases, Editor Barclay investigated the cost of defenses to NLRB complaints. Ruling out the automobile company cases because the amounts expended were so large that they would unbalance his study, he last week published his finding (based upon 76 company defenses in 28 States): The average cost of meeting an NLRB complaint (not including appeal to the courts) was $20,572. Since...
...Only New Deal agency to receive any set-back from the Court this term was NLRB, which was told it had overstepped its powers in the Fansteel and Consolidated Edison cases...
...alumni began an eight-day term of lectures, discussions and movies, interspersed with the usual dinners, excursions and shenanigans. Chicago's alumni school, whose purpose is not to stuff but to stimulate, had as lecturers President Robert Maynard Hutchins, U. S. Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold, NLRB's Chairman J. Warren Madden, University professors. Alumni heard lectures on What Is Progressive Education? Can Man Make Good? What Can We Expect from the New Pope...
...repute: David John Lewis, the learned, lovable, little Maryland ex-Congressman who was used last year in a bitter and stupid effort to purge Senator Millard Tydings (TIME, Sept. 12, et seq.).* As a worthy favorite at 70, Davey Lewis was considered too old for arduous duty on NLRB, just right for the easier routine of a railway mediator...