Name Summary of dispute cases I. CASES REFERRED BY PRESIDENT (12) American Smelting & Refining Co. Kennecott Copper et al. Borg-Warner Corp. Wright Aeronautical Corp... Status immediately after Union called off strike....... Union refused to call off strike. Union called off strike. do. Status of Board action Case closed Oct. 23, 1951. Board recom- Case returned to President Aug. 29, 1951. Parties negotiated agreement with union Parties maintained produc- Parties negotiating. Iron ore portion of Steel industry.... Boeing Airplane Co... do. case still pending before the Board. Parties reached agreement under Board auspices, except for union-shop issue. Board recommended union shop. Awaiting panel report. Do. Hearings postponed upon joint request of parties to allow for further negotiations. Panel hearing opened Apr. 10 1952. Board requested parties to resume negotiations and keep Board informed of progress. II. VOLUNTARILY SUBMITTED BY PARTIES AND ACCEPTED BY BOARD (9) III. VOLUNTARILY SUBMITTED BUT REJECTED BY BOARD (6) Citizens Rapid Transit Co. of Virginia Owl Drug Co. Ohio Power Co. Park Utah Consolidated Mines IV. VOLUNTARILY SUBMITTED AND AWAITING BOARD ACTION ON ACCEPTANCE Craig Shipbuilding Co. Long Beach Marine Repair Co. Wilmington Welding & Boiler Works OR REJECTION (6) Cavanaugh Machine Works. (Reference to the following will be found on p. 1989.) Public members STEEL PANEL Chairman of the panel was Harry Shulman, professor of law at Yale University, arbitrator and impartial umpire for the UAW and Ford. Ralph T. Seward, of Washington, former arbitrator at General Motors, United States Steel, and International Harvester, and past president of the American Academy of Arbitrators. Labor members Eli Oliver (AFL), labor economist of Washington and now associated with the Labor Bureau of the Middle West, and Arnold Campo (CIO), international representative of the steelworkers union, and formerly a labor member of the San Francisco regional Wage Stabilization Board. Industry members Earle Watkins Mills, president of the Foster-Wheeler Corp., of New York City, makers of machinery and equipment, and a retired Navy admiral, and John C. Bane, Jr., attorney, of Pittsburgh, member of the firm of Reed, Smith, Shaw, and McClay. (Reference to the following will be found on p. 1990.) Attendance record of board in steel case Date Matter of discussion Public Industry Labor 1 During this session the Board was recessed and reconvened in executive session. were not present in the executive session. Walker. Birthright. Beirne. Livingston. Rieve. Brophy. Beirne. Livingston. Rieve. Brophy. Walker. Birthright. Panel members Feinsinger. Heron. Bullen. Armstrong. Aaron. Denise. Dunlop. Hennessy. Ross. Olander. (Reference to the following will be found on p. 1990.) WAGE STABILIZATION BOARD BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF BOARD MEMBERS AS OF APRIL 22, 1952 Public members Nathan P. Feinsinger, Chairman, is a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin. He was in Washington with the National War Labor Board from 1942 until 1946, successively as associate general counsel, oirector of national disputes, and public member of the Board. In 1946, he was Chairman of the Presidential Fact-Finding Board in the steel dispute, and performed the same job in the meat-packing dispute in 1948. In 1947, he was the special representative of the Secretary of Labor in labor disputes in the longshore, public utilities, and Hawaiian sugar and pineapple industries. Mr. Feinsinger has often served as arbitrator, umpire, or impartial chairman under collective-bargaining contracts, including those of General Motors and the United Auto Workers, CIO; Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. and the UAW; Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. and the UAW; and Consolidated-Vultee and the International Association of Machinists, AFL. Mr. Feinsinger graduated from and received a doctorate of jurisprudence from the University of Michigan in 1928, after which he spent a year doing sociolegal research at Columbia Law School. He has been a member of the faculty at Wisconsin since 1929, and has also taught as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago. He is the author of three books in the field of law. Frederick H. Bullen, Vice Chairman on leave from his job as Executive Secretary of the New York State Mediation Board, was chairman of the Cleveland Regional War Labor Board in 1944-45. He was appointed a special mediation officer of the National War Labor Board in early 1942, and during that summer operated as He became the disputes director special mediation officer in the Cleveland area. of the regional board before moving up as regional chairman. For a short time in 1950 he was impartial arbitrator for the Ford Motor Co. and the UAW. He is a graduate of Cornell University. Studied at Graduate School of Public Administration, Harvard University. He is a lecturer at the Graduate School for Public Service, New York University. John T. Dunlop, professor of economics at the Littauer School of Public Administration, Harvard University, was Vice Chairman of the Boston Regional War Labor Board, and later Chief of the Program Appraisal and Research Division of the National War Labor Board in Washington during World War II. He was later a public member of the Wage Adjustment Board for the building and construction industry. Since the end of the war, Mr. Dunlop has been a consultant to the Council of Economic Advisers and to Presidential Assistant, John R. Steelman, as well as impartial chairman of the National Joint Board for the Settlement of Jurisdictional Disputes in the Building and Construction Industry. He is a member of the Atomic Energy Labor Relations Panel. He received both his A.B. degree and his Ph.D. from the University of California. He also studied at Stanford and at Cambridge University, in England. Benjamin Aaron is on leave from the University of California at Los Angeles where he has served as lecturer in labor law and research associate in the Institute of Industrial Relations since 1946. During the war, Mr. Aaron held the post of mediation officer for the National War Labor Board until his appointment as chairman of the Detroit Area Tool and Die Commission in 1943. În 1944 he was appointed chairman of the National Airframe Panel, and in 1945 he was made Executive Director of the Board. He also served as a member of the War Department's Advisory Committee on Labor for Japan in 1946. From 1946 until his appointment to the Wage Stabilization Board, Mr. Aaron, in addition to his regular work at the University, served as umpire and member of Government fact-finding boards in numerous labor disputes. From July 1950 to July 1951, he served as impartial arbitrator for the B. F. Goodrich Co. and the United Rubber Workers (CIO). Mr. Aaron received an A. B. from the University of Michigan, an LL. B. from the Harvard Law School, and did graduate research in labor law at the University of Chicago Law School. Thomas F. Coman has been a labor relations analyst and reporter for the Bureau Prior to that time he had been with the Associated of National Affairs since 1941. Press in Detroit and Washington since 1934, also specializing in writing about various phases of labor relations. Mr. Coman graduated with an A.B. in journalism from Notre Dame University in 1924, and worked for a South Bend newspaper for 10 years before joining the Associated Press. Arthur M. Ross is on leave from the University of California at Berkeley where he is Associate Professor of Industrial Relations. He is an experienced arbitrator of management-labor disputes in the airframe, automobile, machinery, airline, electrical, and other industries. Among the companies where he has served as arbitrator are: Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., Pan-American World Airways, Dow Chemical Co., Kuhlman Electric Co., Master Electric Co., and California Cotton Mills. In 1949-50 he served as assistant umpire under the National Agreement between the General Motors Corp. and the UAW-CIO. During World War II he was associated with the National War Labor Board as Chairman of the New Case Committee and Vice Chairman of the War Shipping Panel. Mr. Ross has been consultant to the California State Employment Commission, the Institute of International Education, and other agencies. He is author of books and articles on wages, collective bargaining, and industrial disputes, and has taught at Michigan State College and George Washington University as well as the University of California. Industry members Hiram S. Hall is vice president in charge of personnel functions of the BigelowSanford Carpet Co. of New York City, where he has been since 1944. Before coming to the Bigelow-Sanford Co., Mr. Hall was the director of industrial relations at Ranger Engine & Aircraft Co., Farmingsdale, N. Y. He previously had been manager of operations for Aircraft Radio Corp., and director and manager of the Queens Industrial Commission. He has been an instructor of labor law and collective bargaining techniques at New York University. Mr. Hall served with the United States Navy from 1917 until 1919 and received a law degree from Southern Law School, Athens, Ga. Milton M. Olander, a member of the labor relations committee of the United States Chamber of Commerce, has been director of industrial relations at the Owens-Illinois Glass Co., of Toledo, Ohio, since 1935. He has also been a member of United States delegations to International Labor Organization meetings in Paris, Mexico City, and Montreal. He also served as district representative for the training-within-industry program for the State of Michigan and the Toledo, Ohio, area from 1940-44. From 1922-24, Mr. Olander was football coach at Western Michigan College, in Kalamazoo, Mich., and from 1924 to 1935 he was assistant football coach and professor at the University of Illinois. Mr. Olander graduated from the University of Illinois in 1922, and received a master's degree from Michigan in 1931. George W. Armstrong, Jr. is president of the Texas Steel Co., whose employ he entered in 1923. He is also president of Trinity Oxygen Co., director of the Wichita Falls & Wellington Railroad, a subsidiary of the M. K. T. Railroad, and is in the cattle business in Montague County, Tex. In 1922 and 1923, before going to Texas Steel, he was employed at Donner Steel Co., Universal Atlas Steel Co., and the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. During World War II, he served as one of the vice chairmen of Industry Members of the Eighth Regional War Labor Board, in Dallas. Mr. Armstrong was educated in the public schools at Fort Worth, Tex. He attended Carnegie Institute of Technology. Richard P. Doherty has been director of the employee-employer relations department of the National Association of Broadcasters since September 1946. Before that he spent 5 years as executive director of the Industrial Relations Council of Metropolitan Boston, which he helped to organize in 1941. In addition, Mr. Doherty had been head of the economies department of the Boston University College of Business Administration, the faculty of which he had joined in 1927. He has had widespread experience in labor-management mediation, conciliation, and arbitration matters since NRA days. Mr. Doherty graduated from Clark University in 1925 and received a master's degree from Brown University in 1926. Malcolm L. Denise joined the office of the general counsel of the Ford Motor Co. on June 3, 1946, and is now an associate counsel for the company specializing in labor law and related matters. Before going to Ford, he practiced general civil law in Detroit, concentrating on labor law beginning in 1942. Mr. Denise attended college and received his law degree at the University of Michigan. Dwight Steele is president of the Hawaii Employer's Council. Previously, he had been employed by the Distributors Association of Northern California since 1942, as a labor relations specialist and, beginning in 1944, as executive vice president. Before that, he had practiced law in California, having been admitted to the bar in 1939. He studied law at Bolt Hall at the University of California. |