UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Pago Gossett, William T., vice president and general counsel, Ford Motor Co. 2091, 2167 Gray, Richard J., president, building and construction trades department, Guffey, William F., Jr., counsel, Wagner Electric Corp., St. Louis, Mo.- 1815 Hines, Lewis G., legislative representative, American Federation of Labor. Irving, C. L., secretary-manager, Pine Industrial Relations Committee, in Tichy, George J., manager and attorney, Timber Products Manufacturers Association, in behalf of National Lumber Manufaturecrs Asociation 2210, 2223 Glenn Gardiner, president, New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce, and vice president, Forstmann Woolen Co., Passaic, N. J.. E. Lawrence Chandler, assistant secretary, American Society of Civil William Green, president, American Federation of Labor Herbert S. Thatcher, attorney, American Federation of Labor. - Lewis G. Hines, legislative representative, American Federation of Richard J. Gray, president, building and construction trades depart- ment, American Federation of Labor, Washington, D. C...----- I Carl Brown, president, Foremen's Association of America. Allan Rosenberg, Foremen's Association of America___. William T. Gossett, vice president and general counsel, Ford Motor C. L. Irving, secretary-manager, Pine Industrial Relations Committee, in behalf of National Lumber Manufacturers Association_ George J. Tichy, manager and attorney, Timber Products Manufac- turers Association, in behalf of National Lumber Manufacturers L. R. Boulware, vice president in charge of employee relations, General III. LIST OF STATEMENTS AND COMMUNICATIONS Brown, Carl, president, Foremen's Association of America, statements sub- List of representation cases and unfair labor practice cases that were pending with the Board at the time of passage of Taft-Hartley Act. 2139 Statement of the position by the Foreman's Association of America in The position of Foremans' Association of America in reply to testi- mony given February 16 and 17, 1949, by William T. Gossett... How the foreman's position in industry compares with that of pro- Letter of, to Senator Thomas, furnishing statistical information in re membership of International Association of Machinists. Letter of, to Senator Thomas, amplifying previous testimony. - Denham, Hon. Robert N., general counsel, National Labor Relations Board, letter of, to Senator Thomas, listing cases in which injunctions were obtained under section 10 (j) of Taft-Hartley Act-- Durham, Walter A., Jr., Lumbermen's Industrial Relations Committee, Donnell, Hon. Forrest C., a United States Senator from the State of Excerpts from Fourteenth Annual Report of National Mediation Gardiner, Glenn, president, New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce, rebuttal submitted by, to arguments presented by Carl Brown in a document inserted in the record in reply to testimony given on February Geary, Paul M., executive vice president, National Electrical Contractors National apprenticeship and training standards for the electrical Gossett, William T., vice president and general counsel, Ford Motor Co., 2016 2022 Morse, Hon. Wayne, a United States Senator from the State of Oregon, Hearings before subcommittee of House Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, May 7, 1948, investigation to ascer- tain scope of interpretation by general counsel of National Labor Relations Board of the term "affecting commerce," as used in the Morse, Hon. Wayne-Continued Herzog, Paul M., Chairman, National Labor Relations Board, Wash- Page 1661 Exhibit A-2. Memorandum, dated January 7, 1949, to Mr. 1662 Exhibit A-3. Memorandum to the Board by Mr. Herzog-- 1662 1662 Exhibit A-5. Memorandum, dated January 3, 1949, from Mr. 1663 Exhibit A-6. Memorandum, dated December 23, 1948, to the 1663 Exhibit A-7. Memorandum, dated November 29, 1948, from 1664 Taft, Hon. Robert A., a United States Senator from the State of Ohio, Newspaper clippings as follows: Pittsburgh Press, February 13, 1949, UE right wing battles on Pittsburgh Press, February 14, 1949, local 638 bolts UE to join Sunday News, Miami, February 13, 1949, trucker union to sift Tichy, George J., manager and attorney, Timber Products Manufacturers Excerpt from Labor Relations Reporter, published by Bureau of Hoffman, Charles S., Oregon Coast Operators, Coos Bay, Oreg., Studebaker, R. I., secretary-manager, Tri-County Loggers Associa- Thomas, Hon. Elbert D., a United States Senator from the State of Utah, 2268 2269 2270 2272 2273 2273 2274 2234 2230 2230 Grunsky, Robert R., managing director, California Metal Trades 2206 Herzog, Paul M., chairman, National Labor Relations Board, letter of, 1835 Wilson, Charles E., president, General Electric Co., insertions of 2259 Lilienthal, David E., Chairman, United States Atomic Energy Com- 2260 2293, 2299 Statement submitted by, additional information as to General Electric LABOR RELATIONS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1949 UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE, Washington, D. C. The committee met, pursuant to adjournment, at 9:30 a. m. in the committee room, United States Capitol, Hon. Elbert D. Thomas (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Thomas, Murray, Pepper, Hill, Neely, Douglas, Humphrey, Withers, Taft, Smith of New Jersey, Morse, and Donnell. The CHAIRMAN. Senator Morse has some questions that he wishes to put to Mr. Denham. STATEMENT OF HON. ROBERT N. DENHAM, GENERAL COUNSEL, NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD-Resumed Senator MORSE. Mr. Denham, I am going to complete my examination of you this morning very briefly, and in the interest of saving time I have certain statements that I am going to read into the record, and then you can comment upon the statements because some of them will be recapitulations of what, I am sure, you have already expressed Ter in the record. I agree with the view expressed in your opening statement to the effect that public confidence in the administration of the present statute or any law relating to labor relations depends, in a large part, on whether the public has confidence in the personnel and the field offices of the agency. As I understand the Taft-Hartley law, you have final authority with regard to the issuance of unfair-labor-practice complaints, and you also have complete charge of the field staff. Consequently, any decision by a regional director not to proceed with the charge, which I understand is a decision frequently made after consultation with you or members of your Washington staff, cannot be appealed to anyone but you. In effect, it seems to me that you are sitting in judgment on a matter which you and your staff have previously decided. On the other hand, under the Wagner Act an appeal could be taken to the Board in Washington from a determination in the field office not to issue a complaint, and in that respect a review could be had by persons who had not previously acted upon the case. Isn't it true, therefore, along the lines of Senator Pepper's question the other night, that your discretion in deciding not to proceed with an unfair-laborpractice charge is completely uncontrolled, at least in the sense that it is not subject to review? Mr. DENHAM. I beg your pardon? |