The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-02-08
New Labor Bodrd
Urged By A. F. OIL.
Removal Of All Three Mem.
bers Asked For BY Green
Before House Probers

House Committee investigating en-
forcement of the National Labor Re-
lations Act, charged the National
Labor Relations Board with unfair
ness and maladministration.
Mr.. Green urged the removal of the
entire board and amendments to the
act which would prevent discrimina-
ton against the American Federation
Of Labor and stop Outrageous de-
lays" in labor cases. He called at
tention to the Pacific Coast longshore
mems case as an example of partial
ity Of the board to Communist infu-
ence. He said that Harry Bridges
C. /. o. longshoremen organization
had been recognized as the exclusive
bargaining agency from Seattle to
Los Angeles, despite longshoremen's
unions affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor which had car
ried on for many years in the Pacific
Coast area.
owe don't want to be represented
by Communists" Mr.. Green declared
with vigor.
He asserted that nobody, except
Dean James NJ. Lands of the Har-
ward Law School and Secretary Of
Labor Perkins, believed Mr.. Bridges
was not a Communist.
A. r. L. Unions Wrecked
Mr. Green declared that in some
| instances the board had wrecked
American Federation Of Labor unions
by it's delays and discrimination ia
voring the c. |. o.
eve charged the National Labor
Relations Board with maladministra-
tion," Mr.. Green said, in beginning
his testimony. at is anything but
judicial body"
"Our complaint" he continued, "is
against the Labor Board, not the Act.
l believe l referred to it when it was
passed as the Magma Charta of La
Dor. | still so regard it."
Mr.. Green suggested as amend
ments to the act provision prevent
ing the board from denying to work
ers "the right of self determination"
and a clause allowing collective-bar
gaining disputes among rival unions
to be taken to the Federal Circuit
Court of Appeals. Such appeals now
are confined to unfair labor practice
charges against employers.
Citing cases in which the A. F. L.
felt it was treated unfairly, Mr. Green
spoke of Outrageous delays" in set
ting labor disputes.
He mentioned the National Casket
Co. case, in which, he said, the COM
plant was filed November 4, 1885,
and final board decision was not hand
ed down until April 10, 1889.
Reprehensible Delays
Mr.. Green accused the N. L. R. B.
of administering the act according
to its own peculiar views"
He blamed the board for the col
lapse of certain A. F. L. unions, ex-
planning that they could not stand
up under constant delays and uncer-
tainties surrounding their status at
industrial plants.
In one case, Mr.. Green declared, the
conduct of the board "borders on
trickery." He cited number of cases
which showed, he said, delays of a
most reprehensible character"
Mr.. Green charged the board with
deliberately favoring unions affiliated
with the Congress of Industrial Or
ganizations and with discrimination
against A. F. l.. unions.
Mr.. Green did not read a prepared
statement, but spoke extemporaneous-
ly, with written digests of cases to
guide him.
The board, he said, "has committed
all the crimes in the calendar" in
selecting the valid bargaining agency
at plants"
Board Favored c. /. O.
The Labor Board, said Mr.. Green,
''has beyond question" favored the
c. |. o. form of industrial unit or
ganizations and opposed the A. F. l..
craft unions
1--WE favor both forms of organiza-
tion," he added, "but we want to pro-
tect the rights of the workers to or
ganize as they choose"
Asked by committee member,
Representative Routzohn, Republican,
of Ohio, if he thought Board Chair
man J. Warren Madden was qualified
to administer the act, Mr.. Green said
he certainly did not, adding:
"They are all out the window as
far as | am concerned"
Mr.. Green charged that $4,000 A.
F. l.. miners had petitioned the board
for the right to bargain collectively
and not a single petition had been
granted.
Mr.. Green suggested, in addition to
Wagner Act amendments preventing
discrimination and delay, that the
board be completely revamped so
that there will be five members of the
board (there now are three) and a
complete change in personnel so as
to insure fair and impartial admin
istration."
Mr.. Green said, in response to a
question by Chairman Smith, that he
thought the board should be deprived