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Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor is the American Federation of Government Employes. Lodge 91 of the A. F. G. E. is the union of NRA workers. Head of that union is one John L. Donovan who worked for NRA's Labor Advisory Board. Two of his superiors, Leo Wolman and Gustav Peck, had filed complaints against him. For appearance's sake, however, General Johnson hesitated to fire the head of his employes' union...
Early in June a union member named Mrs. Nancy Luke was discharged by NRA. The union took up her case. Last week Union Leader Donovan led a delegation to General Johnson's office to demand her reinstatement. According to the union account, General Johnson broke the engagement with the delegation and demanded the conference be postponed whereas Leader Donovan demanded and got an immediate hearing. Result: Mrs. Luke was reinstated. Then the General's pent-up feelings overflowed in a flood of Johnsonese. Regardless of consequences he did what few people thought he would dare do, and dismissed...
...disputes, she has had since taking office but has not notably exercised. In the crowd of angry disputants in the automobile labor trouble, the Weirton Steel case, the Budd body strike, the Alabama miners' walkout, the Manhattan taxicab strike and many another, one might see the panama of NRA's General Johnson, the grey fedoras of the National Labor Board's Senator Wagner and Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor-but seldom "Madam Queen's" tricorn...
...disposition was made no sweeter because he had to spend the week-end in Washington's Walter Reed Hospital having an abscess treated. But the abscess that troubled his flesh was less sore than a flock of boils which last week broke out on the hide of NRA...
...months ago the General tried to salve a chronic NRA sore spot by getting President Roosevelt to decree the cancellation of the irksome price-fixing and "fair trade practice" provisions of the codes of service industries: cleaning & dyeing, laundry, automobile storage & parking, etc. Last week three of the affected industries boldly renounced what remained of their codes. In plain-spoken letters to the White House the cleaners and garagemen all gave the same reason: The benefits of a code had been taken away and only the burdens remained...