POSITION OF UNIONS
VITAL N.K.A. DECISION
MAJORITY RULE OF WORKERS
FIGHT LIKELY IN COURTS
United Fress Association—By Eleckic Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, September 1. Coincidental with the • textile strike, effective at midnight on Saturday, the National Labour Relations Board of the N.R.A. issued an important decision today that is likely to have a profound effect on the trend of American industrial warfare.
It is an official interpretation of the so-called Section 7a of the Recovery Act defining the rights of workers to collective bargaining.
In a test case the board declared that the wish of the majority of workers in any industry regarding who is to represent them should bs binding on all workers. In effect this means that where independent American Federation of Labour units gain a majority vote company unions created by employers become illegal.
Large industrialists immediately announced that they would fight the decision through the Courts.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 55, 3 September 1934, Page 9
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148POSITION OF UNIONS Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 55, 3 September 1934, Page 9
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