Change of Wagner Act is Condemned By NLRB Member

Speaking to an overflow audience in Langdell Hall last night, Edwin S. Smith '15, member of the National Labor Relations Board, expressed his disapproval of the additions f new amendments to the Wagner Act.

Introduced as a business man and not a lawyer, he said that most of the cases of the Board were settled informally without forced court action. Therein lies the chief virtue of such quasi judicial groups as the board, he added.

Most of the talk was devoted to relating the functions and experiences of the Board, ending with his own general opinions on the proposed amendments by the Smith Committee, whose chairman, he explained, was absolutely no relation.

Defending the work of the Board and refuting the popular accusation that it is biased in favor of either the AFL or CIO he showed that in the whole history of the Board, each of the labor unions has benefited in over 7,000 cases.

He also demonstrated that, contrary to public opinion, there were less strikes in 1938 than since 1932.