Minutes, 1934

7/14/34-12/12/34; Roundtable discussion on regional labor board policy, discussants include Lloyd K. Garrison (Chairman, NLRB) and Dean Spencer; Board requests survey of industrial (race) relations in Southern Cotton Textile Mills and a report on problems within the Kansas City Regional Board; a report on Kugler's Restaurant case (a violation of Sec. 7a involving employee Sussman); references to the following subjects: the Burgess case, the San Francisco Regional Board split, and the Eagle Rubber Co. case (which involves "questions of discriminatory rehiring"); the Fifth Avenue Coach Co. is turned over to New York State courts; report on reorganization of regional boards; city of Detroit attorneys turn the Detroit Street Railway Case over to the NLRB; a discussion of the A. Knabb & Son case (discrimination); Philadelphia Regional Labor Board's discussion of limitations imposed by the NLB; referral of the Hughs Tool Co. case to the New Orleans Regional Labor Board (black employees' association was not represented); Board's decision to refer all cases section 7a violations to the Department of Justice; Board's decision to notify the Governments Contracts Division, N.R.A. of companies violating Section 7a; Board returns the Ft. Wayne Printing Co. case to the Indianapolis Regional Labor Board; Board's decision to decline to exercise jurisdiction over the Brewery Drivers case, and instead honor the A.F. of L.'s jurisdiction; Board defers action on uncoded industries; Board affirms that intrastate commerce cases will not be referred to the Department of Justice for enforcement.