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A board had to be created to which appeal could be made in case the requirements of 7(a) were later transferred into an act of Congress. It should be a board that could interpret those requirements and appeal could be made when it was claimed that a particular company was not conforming to the law in any particular. The Senator felt that such a board should be set up with proper procedures, regulations etc. and should be authorized to administer the law.

It's a very detailed act. The National Labor Relations Act spelled out in great detail what can and cannot be done, or at least the original one did by employers.

As I said, there was no great enthusiasm for it at first on the part of labor leaders. They liked NRA all right. Although they were grumbling at times about wages, still they were doing pretty well. But Wagner talked to them individually and in groups - principally individually. More and more he got individual labor leaders to agree with him that it would be a good idea, that they would gain by having this kind of a board. Of course, these labor leaders were all AF of L men. There wasn't any other trade union. They couldn't at that time forsee the split in the labor movement.





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