Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most responsible for the boom in boxers is John P. Wagner, a Chicago utility financier and onetime Great Dane breeder. Thirteen years ago, Wagner took a $4,000 gamble by buying Dorian von Marienhof, the champion boxer of Germany. Then he talked 50 or so people (including Jack Dempsey and Sally Rand) into buying shares in his prize brute...
...Welfare Committee had been holding day & night sessions to speed the repealer bill, finally had to extend public hearings for two more weeks. It was a serious blow to labor. Many labor contracts will come up for renegotiation in April, and labor had hoped that by then a modified Wagner Act would have replaced the Taft-Hartley Act on the books. That now looked unlikely...
...Wagner Act, which was vital in 1935 to guarantee the right of labor to organize, has certainly become an unbalanced law with the growth of union strength; and the Taft-Hartley Law, passed in an aura of bitterness in 1947, has been unsuccessful in its attempt to cover a multitude of labor-management problems by federal legislation. But the closed shop is a basic labor right, and must be guaranteed by federal statute; equally important is protection against stoppages in industries vital to the national welfare. On other items, a single federal law would be too broad to cover...
...anti-closed shop provisions of the Taft-Hartley Law have brought the most concerted protests from all levels of labor. Where the Wagner Act put curbs on management, the 1947 law clamped down on labor alone in this most prized of its privileges. Neither statute deals adequately with the closed shop in its present full-grown state. It is a peculiarity of American labor organization which must rather be protected from union abuses than forbidden by law. If unions are to maintain closed shop, they must preserve open membership as regards race, initiation fees, and dues. But the fact remains...
...they will. There can be no substitute for a creator, a Wagner, a Strauss--but we have Rubenstein, and Horowitz and Casadesus and scores of others. We can do without Herr Gieseking and all the others who prosperred in the slaughter house. Donald M. Blinken...