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Because the decision was the first by which NLRB certified an all-inclusive bargaining agency for a whole area, employers the country over wondered whether, for example, the Cotton-Textile Institute might some day be compelled to deal for all its members, unionized and nonunionized, with C. I. O.'s Textile Workers Organizing Committee; or the American Iron and Steel Institute, including President Tom Girdler's non-union Republic Steel Corp., with Steel Workers Organizing Committee. NLRB spokesmen declared the West Coast situation was unique, said no such precedent had been established...
Said he: "[The stores'] present predicament is wholly due to the circumstance that their employes are unorganized and looked upon as fair game for the organizers. . . . The law which stands behind [NLRB] in enforcing its judgments will and must stand behind it in reaching those judgments. ... No friend of labor, or at least organized labor, could think otherwise...
Whether or not studio employes, from Greta Garbo to studio gatekeepers, can take their labor difficulties to the National Labor Relations Board has been a controversial subject in the cinema industry since the Supreme Court upheld the Wagner Act last year. Last week it was answered when the NLRB handed down a long-awaited decision involving Hollywood's 350 screen writers, most of whom make between $150 and $5,000 a week...
...union since 1933, when producers summarily cut their pay 50%. Principal result has been sharp rivalry between the Screen Writers Guild Inc. (membership 500) and Screen Playwrights Inc. (membership 130). When Screen Playwrights last year signed a contract with seven major studios, the S. W. G. responded by asking NLRB to make it the sole bargaining agent for screen writers. Last week, after considering the evidence for over eight months, NLRB ruled that...
...cinema industry engages in interstate commerce and is therefore subject to NLRB rulings...