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PREFACE

This volume is a compilation of the basic records which constitute the legislative history of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947. It includes early drafts, the Senate, House, and conference reports along with pertinent excerpts from the congressional proceedings.

Because of limited time and space it is impossible to include congressional hearings and drafts of related bills. Similarly, general remarks in the Congressional Record on the subject of labor problems are largely omitted. The hearings are on file in the National Labor Relations Board Library.

Two indexes, one based upon the sectional arrangement of the statute and the other topical, accompany the material reprinted herein. The sectional index contains references to the drafts, reports, and debate which are keyed to the respective sections of the statute. Thus an individual who is interested in material pertaining to section 8 (b) (4) (A) can find all of the references in the drafts, reports, and debate relating to that section of the statute listed in the sectional index under 8 (b) (4) (A).

The subject index is an alphabetically arranged series of topical headings and is intended as a guide to those not acquainted with the section numbers of the statute. It covers all of the references listed in the sectional index along with additional references to subject matter not susceptible of sectional indexing. In both indexes Title I of the Labor Management Relations Act and those other provisions of the act dealing with the National Labor Relations Board are treated in detail. Other provisions of the act, which are not administered by the National Labor Relations Board (e. g. that concerning the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service) are accorded less detailed coverage.

Committee reports and drafts of bills are reproduced page for page and line for line. The original pagination appears in brackets in the upper inside corner of each page. Original pagination of the Congressional Record appears in bold face type in the body of the text. Note that these page numbers refer to the daily Congressional Record and not to the bound volumes which are paginated differently. Hence citations should appear in the following form: 93 Daily Congressional Record 2098, March 15, 1947. When the bound volumes of the Congressional Record are printed, instructions will be distributed which will enable users to cite the pagination of the bound volumes rather

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