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...property must be conceded and safeguarded. Working people must be accorded the right to organize and bargain collectively. . . . Labor and capital can cooperate. . . " Thus the cagey councilmen affirmed a co-operative policy whereby A.F. of L. already had diddled C.I.O. out of many a bargaining contract, has also caused NLRB to declare in several cases that Federation-employer cooperation was in fact collusion intended to discourage workers' affiliations with more militant C.I.O. unions...
...Mine Workers, spent some $3,000 on fixtures, including a huge bronze of the Lion of Lucerne, set out to become a paid legal lion not only for the Federation but for some of its rich affiliates. Since then he has ably represented the Federation before Congressional committees and NLRB, in so doing has aroused the suspicions of some A. F. of L. executive councilmen, who feel that Attorney Padway's appetite for profitable publicity may outgrow the bounds befitting a hired hand...
...Through President Green, who no longer may declare the A.F. of L. position on national affairs without the council's approval, clarified the Federation view of the Wagner Act and NLRB. "There is no sentiment for repeal of the Wagner Act," said Mr. Green. "We believe the measure is sound. . . . But I can say definitely that we feel the Wagner Act has been very badly administered...
Soon developed was the fact that in some of its vital cases NLRB had withheld a right which was now declared to be essential. NLRB Counsel Charles Fahy asked the Third Circuit Court of Appeals for time to correct the Board's procedure and recent order against Republic Steel Corp. Active Mr. Wood, who also represents Ford Motor Co., another NLRB defendant, asked the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to require testimony whether the three NLRB members had themselves read and digested the 2,000,000 words of Ford testimony taken by subordinates; whether, before the finding was issued...
...Grand Haven, Mich, last week worry over an adverse NLRB decision was said to have driven General Manager Arthur L. Colten of Kiddie Kover Manufacturing Co. to undue extremes. Last fortnight, Colten was found dying in his bed with a copy of the decision in his hand and a self-inflicted bullet wound in his head...