A. F. of L's Fruits

A. F. of L.'s Fruits

Amidst continuing sound & furor over the way the National Labor Relations Board had administered the Wagner Act, NLRB last week made its own report on its record:

> Of 41 cases involving substantial disagreement between A. F. of L. and C. I. O. in the fiscal year ended June 30, the board decided 21 for A. F. of L., 16 for C. I. O.; four were dismissed or withdrawn.

>Of 8,851 cases covering 1,845,818 workers closed during the year, 95% were settled by dismissal or withdrawal of union complaints, or by agreements between workers and employers without a hearing. In the remaining 5% were most of the cases which the public heard about.

Also published last week was a list of nine proposed A. F. of L. changes in the Wagner Act. Significantly included were an amendment to curtail NLRB's power to invalidate existing contracts, another to require NLRB to give all interested parties (including unions) due notice of intention to investigate a contract. NLRB's retort (in its annual report): ". . . In most of such cases the beneficiary of the employer's illegal acts also secures a collective agreement and is naturally loath to recognize the board's duty to compel the employer to forego the fruits of his violation. . . ."

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