When the flimsy old National Labor Board under Senator Wagner made no real headway toward settling labor disputes growing out of NRA, President Roosevelt got Congress to set up a new National Labor Relations Board. Outside the jurisdiction of NRA, this new agency was empowered to make decisions and enforce them. To it the President appointed three gentlemen: Edwin Seymour Smith, onetime newshawk, who became Massachusetts Commissioner of Labor & Industries; Harry Alvin Millis, head of the University of Chicago's Economics Department; and, as chairman, an able,...
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