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...NRA is to set up within 24 hours a board, responsible to the President, to sit in Detroit to pass on all questions of representation, discharge and discrimination. Decision of the board shall be final and binding on employer and employes. Such a board is to have access to all pay rolls and to all lists of claimed employe representation and such board will be composed of: a) a labor representative; b) an industry representative; c) a neutral...
Weirton Steel. For the first time NRA took a complaint against a big firm into court. Attorney General Cummings applied to a Federal district court in Delaware to issue an injunction restraining Weirton Steel Co. from violating Section 7 (a). This merely transferred to court the old fight on whether Weirton Steel had violated the steel code in refusing to recognize the A. F. of L. steel union, forming its own company union, and declining to supply a list of its employes for the National Labor Board to hold a poll on union preference. Promptly the leaders...
...carry out the settlement are actuated by the same broadgauged statesmanship which motivated Mr. Roosevelt, then there will be cause for rejoicing, indeed, for the President has regained much of the ground lost since the NRA began its one-sided handling of the labor problem several months ago. Today the Government of the United States has restored the balance as between employers and employees and the Government is again the umpire, the neutral force that causes both sides to respond and obey...
...coercion. On this point the motor executives won out, but labor, on the other hand, managed to get the process of collective bargaining more clearly defined. Labor has adopted the wise course in deciding to consolidate its position, taking advantage of the gains it has already gotten under the NRA instead of bringing on a strike which would have meant suffering to millions and a setback to the industrial progress of the country...
...idea originated with the manufacturers of ten-cent cigarettes who are finding the increased costs brought about by NRA and the Processing taxes a bit too hard for them, something they did not anticipate when they started a vigorous price war in June, 1932--and now they are pleading with the government to let them have a lower rate of taxes by the simple device of classifying cigarettes according to selling prices. These ten-cent cigarette makers insist they would pass on some of the reduction to the consumer...