NO EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT SMITH REPORT, COMMITTEE MEMBERS CHARGE
No Evidence To Support Smith Report, Committee Members Charge Conclusion of Probers False, Say Members Blistering Minority Report Issued on Probe WASHINGTON. D. C—Conclusions reached by a...
...The evidence in the record that the act...
...This attack, lor these amendments are an attack, should be recognized by the house—as labor has recognized ft—as destructive of the hard-won rights of our working people...
...William Green and strongly condemned by CIO Pres...
...Labor Relations act proposed by the majority of this committee are not only destructive to vital provisions or the art but cannot find support in the testimony developed by our investigation/' Ihe minority report begins...
...As this report will point out, not only were these findinss and recom-mrndatiorr, based on an entire lack of substantial testimony but in ni cases there was not even a scintilla of evidence to support them...
...Labor Relations Act...
...Instead of continuing to completion of a thorough and well-rounded investigation, the committee abruptly suspended hearings and the majority immediately prepare i a draft bill which contemplates the most drastic modifications cf the present law...
...Citing the preamble of the labor act, declaring it to be the policy of the U. S. to eliminate the causes of labor strife by encouraging collective bargaining, the minority report concludes: "So showing has been made before our committee that the board has acted ether ti:an in the ii-te:e,ts of these objectives...
...11 until Feb...
...as now written, is effective In accomplishing its purposes, is undisputed...
...The attack upon the Natl...
...They were that two members be added to the board "to bring a fresh viewpoint to the problems of the board whether of policy or personnel and help resolve fairly and equ.tably any disputed problems,'' enactment of an amendment to give employers caught in a union dispute to petition for an election, and defeat of the bill submitted by the committee majority...
...Rather, under the guidance of the general counsel this committee spent many weeks listening to charges and countercharges of unrelated instances of alleged indiscretion on the part of various employes of the board rather than focusing its attention on, the problems with which the board was dealing in the administration of the ac: and the extent, if any, to which the board or the provisions of the present statute fell short of achieving the objectives so clearly set forth in the preamble of the act...
...Believing that this statute is one of the most censtructive ever passed by congress to safeguard the rights of the worker we have felt compelled to point out that the amendments to the Natl...
...We submit that on the evidence this attack in the national legislature must also fail...
...The claims of the majority that its proposed amendments are directed to those same ends are repudiated by labor...
...John L. Lewis...
...Three recommendations were mad...
...Reps...
...WASHINGTON, D. C. — The four amendments to the national labor relations act indorsed by the house labor committee were warmly approved by AFL Pres...
...Labor Relations Act arc entirely unsupported by evidence...
...NEW YORK CITY—Federal prosecution of labor and radical groups under technical charges drew condemnation from the board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union...
...What the report fails to slate, however, is that the committee made little effort to follow out the mandate of the hrn*e th.it it 'investigate and ascertain the fa-is' which mighl point the way to desirable changes in the Natl...
...D. C—Conclusions reached by a majority of the special house committee studying the Natl...
...Howard Smith (D, Vat, chairman of the committee...
...The majority repcrf...
...8 with a brief recess...
...by Healey and Muroock...
...the two representatives continue, "sets out tli.it in response to its request, the committee received thousands of completed questionnaires from various people throughout the country, that it had access to and analyzed ihe files of important esses before the board as well as numerous |>crsonnel files and that it held public hearings from Dec...
...Labor Relations Act has failed in the courts...
...Industrial democracy must not again be disfranchised...
...The two representatives filed a 45,-(100 word analysis of the majority's report and of the amendments to the labor relations act proposed by Rep...
...Hea'ey iD, Mass.l and Murdoefc (D, Utah), members of ihe committee, declared in a blistering minority report...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 16
