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...union heads chose industrial insurance rather than ordinary life, fire, etc., because they thought industrial agents would have more grievances, would be more amenable to union advances. The agents shortly verified this premise. In affidavits submitted to NLRB and New York State Labor Relations Board, in testimony before a New York legislative committee, they declared themselves to be pitifully chivvied, hounded into hounding impoverished clients. A Metropolitan agent in New York City, Benjamin Klein, testified that his district manager punished him for lagging sales by making him don a dunce cap inscribed, "I am lousy, I am a louse," required...
...craw which apparently occasioned this statement was an NLRB report, issued last week, which in effect showed that, as a general thing, employes participating in NLRB elections prefer C. I. O. over A. F. of L. In 208 of 966 elections between October 1935, and January i, 1938, C. I. O. directly opposed A. F. of L., won 160. In all, C. I. O. contested in 557 elections, won 81.7%; A. F. of L. entered 453, won 56.1%. Lately the proportion of A. F. of L. victories has risen, C. I. O.'s has declined, and (significantly for both...
...hopes to amend the Wagner Act in order to clip NLRB's powers (TIME, July 25). The position taken by A. F. of L. this week indicates that it wants nothing less than an amendment to derive C. I. O. of a place on NLRB ballots. Said A. F. of L.'s practical editorialist: "Surely this [C. I. O. recognition] is . . . union development under Government patronage. Progressive legislation and practical democracy depend upon a united labor movement. Whatever groups or agencies give aid to insurgency within our movement defeat these purposes...
...joining a union. Once they have joined, the Wagner Act leaves the boss no choice except 1) to recognize their union, or 2) find some other excuse for getting rid of them. No fools, directors of the Richland Center (Wis.) Co-operative Creamery last week forestalled NLRB prosecution by promising to deal with an A. F. of L. union which some of their employes had joined. Next day five of the six directors stood by while 500 farmers racketed into Richland Center...
...farmers were concerned lest the creamery pay less for their milk if it had to pay more for labor. They forced seven union employes to quit, ordered 15 others to sign a pledge: "I hereby agree not to join any organization bordering on or pertaining to labor unions." Vexed, NLRB's Wisconsin Regional Director Nathaniel S. Clark vowed he would not be "buffaloed by a bunch of farmers," rooted out a Wagner Act section which makes interference with NLRB a penal offense...