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Amidst continuing sound & furor over the way the National Labor Relations Board had administered the Wagner Act, NLRB last week made its own report on its record...
Also published last week was a list of nine proposed A. F. of L. changes in the Wagner Act. Significantly included were an amendment to curtail NLRB's power to invalidate existing contracts, another to require NLRB to give all interested parties (including unions) due notice of intention to investigate a contract. NLRB's retort (in its annual report): ". . . In most of such cases the beneficiary of the employer's illegal acts also secures a collective agreement and is naturally loath to recognize the board's duty to compel the employer to forego the fruits...
...Steel Workers Organizing Committee has contracts with 565 producers and fabricators of steel, but Little Steel producers, including Messrs. Schwab and Grace, still stick to E. R. P. (modified so that the workers now support it). Last week NLRB Trial Examiner Frank Bloom, investigating a C. I. O. complaint, recommended that Bethlehem be required to abolish E. R. P. in nine of its 21 plants...
...Meantime, two new A. F. of L. newspaper unions (Editorial Association of Chicago, headed by Herex Rewrite Man Larry Kelly, and Newspaper Commercial Associates of Chicago) began signing up Hearstlings right & left. The climax came when Publisher Meigs declined to negotiate a new contract with the Guild before the NLRB settled the inter-union squabbles...
...important point for other employers was that NLRB, suspecting connivance to defeat Consolidated workers' preference for C. I. O., had forbidden the company to deal with A. F. of L.'s unions. In finding that Consolidated should deal with both A. F. of L. and C. I. O. for their respective members, the Court presumably left intact the principle that NLRB may void contracts when collusion is sufficiently proved. But Justices Reed and Black took pains to dissent, say the Board did retain this power-thus implying that the majority might think...