Topic 8 : Interviews re review, appeals and enforcement of decisions, 1968-1975.

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Topic 8 : Interviews re review, appeals and enforcement of decisions, 1968-1975.

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The administrative activities of the Board's divisions, sections and offices are discussed in the course of a number of interviews. The early history of the Review Section, which was supervised by the NLRB general counsel, and which reviewed case transcripts and drafted preliminary decisions for the Board, is commented upon by a number of respondents. These interviewees discuss the level of skill of the attorneys hired to staff the Review Section and their duties, responsibilities, and the method by which they were promoted. Also commented upon is the evolution of the rules and procedures by which the review attorneys operated, their dependence on economic data and case precedents, and the editing of draft decisions by supervisors. Also mentioned is Nathan Witt's influence on the Review Section of his time and the influence that the leaders of the Review Section had in matters of enforcement. The effect of NLRB members' political positions on enforcement activities is also discussed. The method by which the Board presented its orders to appellate courts for enforcement is discussed. The process of case assignment and the methods of the appellate attorneys in both preparing and arguing cases are elucidated. The work of the Division of Trial Examiners is also commented on. This division presided over unfair labor practice and representational hearings. Discussed, in particular, are the methods by which trial examiners were recruited and trained, their courtroom procedures and the relative autonomy of the chief trial examiner. Relevant respondents include Meta Barghausen, George Bokat, George Bott, Fannie Boyls, Wallace Cohen, William Consedine, Thomas Emerson, Charles Fahy, Ogden W. Fields, Estelle Frankfurter, Herbert Fuchs, Ben Golden, Ernest Gross, Paul Herzog, A. Bruce Hunt, Frank Kleiler, Howard Lichtenstein, J. Warren Madden, Marcel Mallet-Prevost, Will Maslow, George Pratt, Edwin Smith, A. Norman Somers, Stanley Surrey, Owsley Vose, Ruth Weyand, Nathan Witt and Benedict Wolf.

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United States. National Labor Relations Board

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After the first National Labor Relations Board was functionally abolished by the Supreme Court decision invalidating the National Industrial Recovery Act, May 27, 1935, a new National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was established as an independent agency by the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act (NLRA) (49 Stat. 195), dated July 5, 1935. The Supreme Court in 1937 declared the Board constitutional and sustained Congress’s power to regulate employers whose operations affected interstate commerce...

Somers, A. Norman.

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Vose, Owsley.

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Maslow, William C.

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Cohen, Wallace M.

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Wolf, Benedict

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Mallet-Prevost, Marcel.

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United States. National Labor Relations Board. Review Section.

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Herzog, Paul M., 1906-1986

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Lawyer, educator, and government official. From the description of Papers, 1931-1962. (Harry S Truman Library). WorldCat record id: 70944292 ...

Fields, Ogden W.

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Lichtenstein, Howard.

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Surrey, Stanley S.

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United States. National Labor Relations Board. Trial Examiners' Division.

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Weyand, Ruth.

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Witt, Nathan.

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Madden, Joseph Warren, 1890-1972

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Lawyer, government official. From the description of Reminiscences of Joseph Warren Madden : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309736659 ...

Gross, Ernest A. (Ernest Arnold), 1906-1999

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Lawyer, government executive. From the description of Reminiscences of Ernest Arnold Gross : oral history, 1968. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122451905 Lawyer. From the description of Reminiscences of Ernest Arnold Gross : oral history, 1962. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122684351 ...

Bokat, George, 1904-1973.

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Kleiler, Frank M., 1914-

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Boyls, Fannie M.

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Pratt, George O., 1903-1979

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Fuchs, Herbert, Ministerialrat

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Fahy, Charles, 1892-1979

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Charles Fahy (1892-1979) was born in Rome, Georgia. A graduate of local schools, he later attended the University of Notre Dame and the Georgetown University School of Law, receiving an L.L.B. in 1914. He was admitted to the bar in Washington, D.C., and practiced law there for ten years. Interrupting his practice during World War I, he served as a Navy pilot and was awarded the Naval Cross for distinguished and heroic service. In 1924, Fahy moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico for reasons of health, re...

Emerson, Thomas I. (Thomas Irwin), 1907-1991

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Lawyer. From the description of Reminiscences of Thomas Irwin Emerson : oral history, 1953. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309734528 From the description of Reminiscences of Thomas Irwin Emerson : oral history, 1955. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309737818 Thomas Irwin Emerson was born in Passaic, New Jersey, on July 12, 1907. He graduated from Yale College in 1928 and from Yale Law School in 1...

Consedine, William R.

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Smith, Edwin S. (Edwin Seymour), 1891-1976

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Edwin S. Smith (1891-1976) served on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) during the New Deal, as one of its original members, was a member and president of Friends of the Soviet Union, served as the personnel director of Filene's department store in Boston, and was Commissioner of Labor and Industries in Massachusetts. He also worked for the Oil Workers International Union of the CIO, and the Teachers' Division of the United Public Workers of America. When he appeared before the House Comm...

Barghausen, Meta P.

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Frankfurter, Estelle S.

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Hunt, A. Bruce.

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Golden, Ben

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Actor and organizer in the People's Theatre Movement in the United States during the 1930s. From the guide to the Ben Golden papers, 1934-1936, (University of Washington Libraries Special Collections) ...

Bott, George

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