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Ever since the now famous section 7A in the National Industrial Recovery Act, the crisis has been coming. The showdown, however, will not this time be between capital and labor but between political expediency that has guided the NRA politics thus far and another kind of political expediency which may recognize that unemployment increases cannot be tolerated because they add to Uncle Sam's relief bill...
...mediator, has always been the theoretical answer to labor disputes: but labor has been unwilling to yield the right to strike, irrespective of an arbitration. So the administration will have to find some way out of a dilemma which has been largely produced by the uneven way the NRA has administered...
...concerned, it merely says that employers shall recognize representatives chosen by employees. It doesn't say how the choice shall be made. The NRA made its first mistake by assuming the power to regulate elections be postponed from time to time till the A. F. of L. organizers could get in their work...
...supreme and no other employee organizations except thost affiliated with the National Union. Indeed, the organizations claim this openly in their missionary work. There was a time when the outside organizers were not permitted on the premises of companies which had shop unions, but with the help of the NRA, the electioneering has been more or less legalized...
Philadelphia, March 18--Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, administrator of the NRA, was booed today every time his name was mentioned at a meeting of 800 union automobile workers and strikers at the Kensington Labor Lyceum...