Abstract

Newark and the War Labor Board

The National War Labor Board was formally created by the U.S. President on April 8, 1918 of this year, to settle by mediation and conciliation controversies arising between employers and workers in war industries. The Board bases its decisions on the following principles: Workers and employers have the right to organize and to bargain collectively through chosen representatives. Employers are not to discharge workers for membership in trade unions. Workers may not use coercive measures of any kind to induce persons to join their organization. Where the union shop now exists it shall continue to do so, and in establishments where unionists and non-unionists work together and the employer meets only with employees or representatives engaged in his own establishment, the continuance of such conditions shall not be deemed a grievance.