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...from denying such charges, oilmen plaintively asserted that this was merely what they had been directed to do by the New Deal and NRA. Best summary yet of the situation from the oilman's point of view was the remark of one executive: "The oil industry feels like a small boy spanked by mamma for doing something papa told him to do. ..." Last week, when trial finally got under way on the second floor of Madison's eight-year-old Federal building, it was obvious that this would be the major line of defense...
...Paul Mr. Roosevelt aimed a punch at the pre-Black Supreme Court because it "knocked out" AAA and NRA. Said he: "You, the people of Minnesota . . . are not wild-eyed radicals. You believe in a constitutional democracy...
...American Association for Labor Legislation, honorary vice president of the National Consumers League, the professor describes himself as "a Wisconsin liberal-a conservative liberal that does not go off half-cocked." In 1933 he predicted trade unionism would become entrenched throughout U. S. industry as the result of NRA, prophesied a split in Labor's ranks on the industrial organization issue. Now returned from six months' study of the labor situation in Europe, he warns that "the greatest problem of the 20th Century is keeping social conflict from becoming too intense...
...Washington, D. C.), only U. S. pontifical university,* announced that its School of Social Work will be enlarged, called the School of Social Science. Significantly, its first dean will be a famed Catholic New Dealer: Rt. Rev. Monsignor Francis Joseph Haas. Monsignor Haas has since 1933 served on the NRA's Labor Advisory Board, the National Labor Board, the National Committee on Business & Labor Standards, WPA's Labor Policies Board. He has been surpassed only by Edward McGrady as a mediator in strikes, serving notably in the Minneapolis truckmen's strike of 1934, the Tampa cigar strike...
...Among the 6,479 cases which N. L. R. B. has handled, this one stood out because Weirton Steel Co. and its board chairman have long been among the stubbornest and most effective opponents of the New Deal's labor policies. In 1933-35, Weirton Steel bluntly snubbed NRA by refusing to hold a labor board election, and was upheld by a Wilmington, Del. Federal district judge. This time Weirton was accused of flagrant violation of the 1935 Wagner Labor Relations Act, of favoring its two company unions (Employees Representation Plan and Weirton Employees Security League) to the exclusion...