Word: nlrb
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...only big steel company that C.I.O. could never organize. In 1937, he was accused of unfair labor practices. He fought the case for 13 years, until last August. Then he was forced to obey an NLRB order and quit bargaining with the Weirton Independent Union. Reason: NLRB had decided it was a creature of management and a federal court ordered it dissolved. The court ruled that no other union could be set up in the plant for three months. This gave the C.I.O. time to go in and organize. Last week NLRB put it to a vote of Weirton employees...
...fill another key vacancy last week, the President also appointed George J. Bott, 40, labor lawyer, to succeed strong-willed Robert N. Denham as general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board. Bott, born in Connecticut, graduate of Yale Law School, has been a legal light on NLRB since 1937, served as Denham's hand-picked associate general counsel while Denham carried on the feud with board members, which proved his undoing (TIME, Sept. 25). Said Bott: "I don't expect to have any trouble with the board...
...theory, the Taft-Hartley law made sense when it set up the National Labor Relations Board to hear and judge unfair labor practices, and established an independent general counsel to round up and bring in the cases. But in practice, the pro-labor NLRB and its stubborn Republican counsel, Robert N. Denham, had wrangled from the first day they took office. Last week, after listening for months to organized labor's demands for Denham's head, Harry Truman politely asked him to place it on the chopping block...
...first fine shuffle of the New Deal, Writer Malcolm Ross was one of the bright young Ivy Leaguers who went to Washington to take a hand. Yaleman Ross sat to the left of the dealer and played his cards ably. Soon he was publicity chief of the NLRB and a mover & shaker in U.S. labor policy. After a rough ride as chairman of the controversial FEPC, "Mike" Ross quit government in 1946, moved to Florida and went back to writing books...
...privilege to one of the executive reorganization proposals which would automatically become law unless either the House or Senate killed it by May 23. The plan, not recommended by the Hoover Commission, but dear to the heart of Mr. Truman, would abolish the office of general counsel of the NLRB, whose present occupant, Robert N. Denham, annoys the President and union labor. Taft argued that the plan was just a devious trick partly to nullify the Taft-Hartley Act. The Senate went along with Taft, killed the President's measure by a 53-to-30 vote. It was another...