Labor Board Research Articles

Labor Law. Priority Accorded to Labor Board's Award of Back Pay

Labor Law. Priority Accorded to Labor Board's Award of Back Pay

Labor Law. Conflict in Jurisdiction between Labor Board and Federal Court

Labor Law. Conflict in Jurisdiction between Labor Board and Federal Court

The National Labor Boards

SINCE August 1933 there have been three successive national labor boards, each engaged in applying the principle, first embodied in Section 7 (a) of the Recovery Act, that employees should have the right to bargain collectively and to organize and select representatives for that purpose, free from the interference of their employers. There were also, during that period and until the Recovery Act was voided, seven or eight boards, some set up under codes, others specially appointed by the President, applying the same principle in certain specific industries. Within the confines of this article I can make only passing reference to these industry boards,' important though some of them were. The national boards were: (1) The National Labor Board of August 1933, appointed by the President under the general authority of the Recovery Act -a bipartisan body of leading industrialists and labor representatives 2 under the chairmanship of Senator Wagner; (2) its successor, the National Labor Relations Board of July 1934, appointed by the President under a joint resolution of Congress of June 19, 1934-an impartial three-man board 3 of which I was the first chair-

Labor Organizing by the Congress and Lawmaking by the Labor Board

With what rapidity changes have come! We have Bartlett's testimony that shop working time in 1842 was 1234 hours per day, 76 hours per week. In 1860 the work week had been reduced to 68 hours, in 1900 to 58 hours, and in 1930 to less than 48 hours. Today it is considerably under 40 hours. Without the facilities for production that industry has provided, the standard of living would have been lowered in the same proportion as working hours; but how far from this are the facts! One hundred years ago the average family, although working from dawn to dark, lived in a poorly constructed home, heated by an open fire which served also for cooking. Candles furnished light. A wagon or stage coach without springs furnished transportation over roads so poor that twenty miles was a good day's jourey. Fabrics were hand woven and clothes handmade. A good cobbler eeded three days to make a pair of shoes, shoes that no one would wear today. Plumbing had not been dreamed of, nor any of the scores of comforts and conveniences we now have. It is a reasonable estimate that these comforts and conveniences which we now enjoy represent more than fifty times the productive effort that would be needed today to provide all the things the human race had one hundred years ago, and yet man produces them in half the working time. This is the triumph of industry. Careful studies have been made of real wages in the United States during this period. That of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York which covers the period from 1820 to 1834, with its index based upon 1913 as 100, shows that real wages on this scale in 1820 was 43; in 1837, after an advance to 54, the index was again 43; in the past hundred years there has been a steady advance up to a maximum in 1931 of 136, and for the past year, the estimate is 132.

Industrial Relations. National Industrial Recovery Act. Authority of the National Labor Board

Industrial Relations. National Industrial Recovery Act. Authority of the National Labor Board

Criticisms of the Railroad Labor Board and an Evaluation of Its Work

Criticisms of the Railroad Labor Board and an Evaluation of Its Work

Principles and Policies Adopted by the Railroad Labor Board

Principles and Policies Adopted by the Railroad Labor Board

The Railroad Labor Board: An Appraisal

Research Article| January 01 1925 The Railroad Labor Board: An Appraisal Clyde Olin Fisher Clyde Olin Fisher Wesleyan University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1925) 24 (1): 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-24-1-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Clyde Olin Fisher; The Railroad Labor Board: An Appraisal. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 January 1925; 24 (1): 1–15. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-24-1-1 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsSouth Atlantic Quarterly Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 1925 by Duke University Press1925 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Statutes. Interpretation. Compulsory Arbitration. Railroad Labor Board

Statutes. Interpretation. Compulsory Arbitration. Railroad Labor Board

Functions and Policies of the Railroad Labor Board

Functions and Policies of the Railroad Labor Board

The Powers and Constitutionality of the United States Railroad Labor Board

The Powers and Constitutionality of the United States Railroad Labor Board

Reviews

Abstract Abstract Principes de Statistique Theorique et Appliquée. By Armand Julin. Paris: Albert Dewit. 1921. xxiii, 712 pp. Reviewed by Willford I. King Enquiry into Production. International Labour Office. London: Harrison & Sons. 1920. 188 pp. Reviewed by Edmund E. Day The Assessment of Physical Fitness. By Georges Dreyer, G.B.E., M.A., M.D. Cassell and Company, Limited: London, New York, Toronto, and Melbourne. 1920. 115 pp. Reviewed by Frank M. Phillips Defects Found in Drafted Men. By A. G. Love and C. B. Davenport. Surgeon General's Office. New ed. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1920. 1559 pp. Reviewed by Miles M. Dawson The Problem of Estimation. By Correa Moylan Walsh. London: P. S. King & Son. 144 pp. Reviewed by Irving Fisher Rules for Reporting Information on Railroad Employees, together with a Classification and Index of Steam Railroad Occupations. Reporting forms and classification plan, prepared by the United States Railroad Labor Board, and approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission, to be used by carriers in reporting wage and compensation data to the United States Railroad Labor Board and to the Interstate Commerce Commission. (To be effective July 1, 1921, superseding Order June 17, 1915, and supplementary Order July 13, 1917.) May, 1921. 320 pp. Reviewed by Lewis Meriam Negro Migration during the War. By Emmett J. Scott. New York: Oxford University Press. 1920. viii, 189 pp. (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Preliminary Studies of the War, no. 16.) Reviewed by Robert F. Foerster Methods and Results of Testing School Children. By Evelyn Dewey, Emily Child, and Beardsley Ruml. E. P. Dutton and Company: New York. 1920. 170 pp. Reviewed by William A. McCall

Railway Labor Board’s Award

Essay| September 01 1920 Railway Labor Board’s Award Current History (1920) 12 (6): 1101–1102. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1920.12.6.1101 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Railway Labor Board’s Award. Current History 1 September 1920; 12 (6): 1101–1102. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1920.12.6.1101 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCurrent History Search This content is only available via PDF. © 1920 by The Regents of the University of California1920 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

The National War Labor Board

The National War Labor Board

The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Plan

IN writing this article I have used literally some of the expressions of Miss Helen Marot and Dr. Charles W. Eliot, who have crystallized the thought in a way I could not improve. Mr. T. E. Mitten has been a constant inspiration to me in adjustments with wage workers. When I, as an examiner for the National War Labor Board, first met him, he was deep in his practical cobperative work with the public of the city of Philadelphia during the influenza epidemic. His remarkable effort to stop that dreadful scourge was surely the most effective local agency. His successful safety cooperative work with the school children and the general public of Philadelphia has also been an inspiration.

Contracts. Impossibility. Implied Conditions. Effect of Recommendation of War Labor Board

Contracts. Impossibility. Implied Conditions. Effect of Recommendation of War Labor Board

War Labor Policies and Their Outcome in Peace

Earlier resort to leaders of unions in American Federation of Labor, 322. — Compulsory arbitration not tried, 324. — The War Labor Board, 326. — Its principles, 328. — Shop Committees, 329. — The Railroad Administration's labor policy, 330. — The Wage Commission of 1918, 332. — The permanent Board of Wages, and other adjustment boards, 332. — Local shop committees, 334. — General aspects of the war developments, 336. — The three types of labor adjustment, 336. — The Federal Employment Service, 338. — Its development to the date of the armistice and its future, 340. — Conclusion, 342.

Measurement of the Cost of Living and Wages

HE great upheaval in prices during the past two or three years has forced into the spotlight of public interest the standard of living as a basis of wage settlement. The cost of living has risen quite suddenly and most dramatically, and unless wages rose with the rise in prices the net result was an actual lowering of the standard of living. For this reason the standard of living has become in a great many cases the basis for setting wages. Thus the Shipbuilding Labor Adjustment Board has on three occasions raised wages to the extent that the cost of living has risen, having done so on each occasion only after an extensive survey and measurement of the increased cost of living has been made. The National War Labor Board in nearly every case that has come before it for settlement has considered evidence and testimony on the increased cost of living. In perhaps half of the cases they have made a settlement of wages directly on the basis of the increased cost of living, and in many of the cases specific provision has been made for the future readjustment of wages on the basis of changes in the cost of living. The Railroad Wage Commission based a recent raise in wages on the results of a special nation-wide survey into the extent that the cost of living had risen. A number of private employers have raised wages after having had special studies made to determine the extent of the increase in cost of living. A few companies have made provision for periodic (in some cases monthly) increases of wages, in accordance with the percentage increases in the cost of living. Some of these companies are the Bankers' Trust Co. of New York City, The Index Visible (Inc.) of New Haven, Conn., the Oneida Community, the Kelly-How-Thompson Co. of Duluth, Minn., the George Worthington Co., and the Printz-Biederman Co. of Cleveland.