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Steel. More far-reaching was the President's action in naming a "National Steel Labor Relations Board." Both employers and labor had proposed naming a board to handle questions of collective bargaining. Therefore the board was not named to make a settlement but to be the settlement. It was given power to investigate charges made under the Recovery Act's collective bargaining clause, to mediate, to arrange for collective bargaining conferences, to arbitrate if requested and, most important, to hold employe elections whenever it sees fit and have access to payrolls in order to conduct elections...
...countries economic assistance and help obtain revision of the post-War treaties which brand them as beaten nations cramped within reduced frontiers. Everywhere Foreign Minister Barthou went he declared that France will block any such revision. He scoffed, by implication, at Italy's power to bring an altered settlement or substantial economic assistance. In Rome the blood pressure of Benito Mussolini rose. But what could II Duce do? Suddenly in the middle of the night he had an idea...
...officials of the striking union, thereby practically killing off the company union." Fact: The agreement called for workers to be represented by whichever union they belong to, whether A. F. of L. or the Auto-Lite Council Body (socalled company union). 3) TIME said of the Toledo Edison Co. settlement: "The union was recognized." Fact: The company formally recognized the union more than ten years ago, was completely willing to negotiate with union officials, whether employed by the company or not. 4) TIME said: "Union members were given preference for employment." Fact: Mediator Charles P. Taft II overruled this request...
...careful study and to undertake any negotiations that seem advisable. The Secretary is fully empowered to represent me in taking whatever action seems advisable under the circumstances. . . ." Then Mr. Roosevelt departed gaily for the crew races at New London. When appealed to there by Governor Merriam of California for settlement of the Pacific Coast longshoremen's strike (TIME, June 25), he promptly wired back that Miss Perkins was in charge. She was. She had already telegraphed San Francisco a proposal to mediate the only issue still in dispute. Meantime she had also telephoned to the heads of the Iron...
...excessively popular in Peru and for months did not know how to let Leticia go without shame to Peru's virile Latin "honor." Only the vast tact of President Olaya Herrera of Colombia and General Vasquez Cobo whom he sent to overawe the Peruvians in Leticia, made a settlement without undue bloodshed possible. Swamp fever did most of the killing. Tall, patient President Olaya Herrera and short, jovial General Vasquez Cobo embraced enthusiastically as the diplomatic squabble ended in a virtuous decision to return Leticia to Mother Colombia. In a jungle clearing last week a Colombian trimotored plane waited...