THE RIGHTS OF LABOUR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 208, 3 September 1934, Page 7

THE RIGHTS OF LABOUR

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING INTERPRETATION OF N.R. ACT COMPANY UNIONS ILLEGAL INDUSTRIALISTS -ALARMED I 'By Telegraph-Tf-Press Association —Copyright! Received Sept. 2, 8.30 p.m. NEW YORK, Sept. 1. Coincidental with the textile strike the National Labour Relations Board of the N.R.A. issued an important decision which is likely to have a pro‘bund effect on the trend of American industrial warfare. It is an official interpretation of the so-called “Section Seven A’-' of the Recovery Act. defining the rights of workers to collective bargaining. In a test case the board declared that the wish of a majority of workers in any industry regarding who shall represent them will be binding on all workers. In effect, this means that where independent American Federation Labour units gain a majority vote, company unions created by employers become illegal. Large industrialists immediately announced they would fight the decision through the courts. NEW BUDGET DIRECTOR MR. DOUGLAS SUCCEEDED. Received Sept. 2, 8.7 p.m. NEW YORK, Sept. 1. Hyde Park advices state that President Roosevelt has announced that he has accepted the resignation of Mr. Douglas as Director of the Budget, and has appointed Mr. Daniel W. Bell, a veteran Treasury employee, as actingdirector. It is learned that, for months, Mr. Douglas has been dissatisfied at the vast expenditures under “the new deal. He believed that balancing the Budget would better aid a return to prosperity.