Among the cases pending before the Board are: Shipbuilding.—Agreement between the CIO Shipbuilding Workers Union and east, west, and Gulf coast yards calling for a wage increase of about 15 percent for 50,000 workers.

Meat packing.-Agreements between packing companies and the CIO, AFL, and independent unions providing for an 11-cent hourly increase for more than 200,000 workers. The adjustment exceeds the allowable limit of Regulation 6 by about 8 cents.

Textiles.—The New England woolen and cotton-rayon settlements with the CIO Textile Workers Union providing for increases of 12 and 10 cents an hour, respectively.

Aircraft.-An agreement between Republic Aviation, Long Island, N. Y., and the International Association of Machinists calling for an increase of 15 cents an hour plus fringe benefits. Agreement between Fairchild Aircraft, Hagerstown, Md., and the CIO United Automobile Workers Union providing for an adjustment of 15 cents an hour.

Atomic. A deferred increase of 10 to 12 cents an hour negotiated last fall to be effective May 1 for more than 1,600 AFL construction workers employed on an Atomic Energy Commission project at Oak Ridge, Tenn.

In addition to acting on the heavy load of individual wage adjustment cases, the new Board also faces the task of adopting new policies and regulations in a score of fields. Among the major problems requiring early attention are: Application of wage stabilization to agricultural labor, the construction industry, and Puerto Rico and other Territories; welfare and pension plans and other fringe benefits; the minimum size of establishments to be exempt from wage controls; the revision of General Wage Regulations 5 and 10 (dealing with merit increases and tandem relationships, respectively) enforcement and investigation procedures and machinery; hardship and inequity cases; critical cases certified by Federal manpower and procurement agencies; cost-of-living escalator clauses beyond June 30; and productivity increases.

The WSB staff has done a great deal of preparatory work on almost all of these issues and the data is ready for submission to the Board for its consideration and action.

Chairman Taylor presented to the new Board at its initial session a brief review of some of the other actions taken by the staff during the past 21⁄2 months. The old Board, before it ceased functioning, gave authority to the Executive Director to issue interpretations of the existing 10 wage regulations, and more than 1,000 such interpretations have gone out to companies, unions, attorneys, and others since that time. Approximately 100 others have been sent to Members of Congress and 200 to the offices of the Wage-Hour Division of the United States Department of Labor which have been acting as field agents for the WSB. The size of the job being done by the 68 field offices of the Wage-Hour Division is shown in figures on wage stabilization matters handled by those offices for the week ended April 27. During that week, the Wage-Hour offices received 25,277 informal inquiries; 15,500 requests for formal rulings; 1,433 reports on increases or other wage actions by various companies; 311 petitions; and 135 applications for approval.

The new WSB will consider establishing its own regional offices in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Richmond, Atlanta, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Dallas, Denver, San Francisco, and Seattle.

The total personnel strength of the WSB last week was 264, including consultants and some administrative employees doing preliminary work in the field on establishment of regional offices. Within the next 2 weeks the Washington staff of the WSB will be moved into new quarters in the South Federal Security Building, at Third and C Streets SW., two blocks away from its present offices in Temporary Building E at Fourth and Adams Drive SW.

WAGE STABILIZATION BOARD

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF BOARD MEMBERS

PUBLIC MEMBERS

Dr. George W. Taylor, Chairman, has been associate professor and professor of labor relations at the Wharton School of Finance, of the University of Pennsylvania since 1937. He was Vice Chairman of the National War Labor Board from 1942 to 1945, and Chairman in 1945. He was secretary of the President's

Labor-Management Conference in the same year. He was Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion from 1946 to 1950, and consultant to the Hoover Commission during 1948 and 1949.

Dr. Taylor was born in Philadelphia on July 10, 1901. He graduated a B. S. in economics from the Wharton School in 1923 and was awarded a Ph. D. from the graduate school of the University of Pennsylvania in 1928. He was head of the business administration department of Albright College from 1924 to 1929. In 1934-35, he was Acting Chairman of the Regional Labor Relations Board, Philadelphia. He was impartial chairman for the hosiery industry from 1931 to 1941, impartial chairman for the men's clothing industry in Philadelphia since 1935, and impartial umpire for General Motors and the United Auto Workers, 1941-42.

Clark Kerr, Vice Chairman, is director of the Institute of Industrial Relations at the University of California, where he has been since 1945. During World War II, Dr. Kerr was a public member of the San Francisco Regional War Labor Board, later Vice Chairman of the Seattle Regional War Labor Board, and Chairman of the War Labor Meatpacking Commission in 1945-46. After the war, he was national arbitrator of the Armour Co. United Packing House Workers dispute, and impartial chairman of the dispute between the Pacific coast waterfront employers and the longshoremen's union. He has also been a member of Presidential fact-finding boards in the meat-packing industry dispute of 1946, Pacific Gas & Electric dispute in 1946, and the Milwaukee Gas Light dispute in the same year.

He was born in Reading, Pa., on May 17, 1911, and is a graduate of Swarthmore College, class of 1932. He also received a master's degree from Stanford University in 1933, and a Ph. D. from the University of California in 1939. In 1935, he graduated from the Institute of International Relations, and in 1936 and 1939 attended the London School of Economics.

Nathan P. Feinsinger was in Washington with the National War Labor Board from 1942 to 1946, successively as associate general counsel, director 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 several labor disputes.

Mr. Feinsinger was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., on September 20, 1902. He graduated from and received a doctorate of jurisprudence from the University of Michigan in 1928, and has been an assistant professor, associate professor, and professor of law at the University of Wisconsin since 1929.

William M. Hepburn, dean of the law school at the University of Alabama, was a public member and Vice Chairman of the Atlanta Regional War Labor Board during 1943 and 1944, and a part-time public member in 1945. In 1946, he was Chairman of the Labor-Management Advisory Committee of the United States Conciliation Service's Fourth Regional Office. In 1938 and 1939 Mr. Hepburn was a part-time trial examiner with the National War Labor Relations Board, and also a part-time conciliator for the Department of Labor in 1942 and 1943. He has been a member of the Alabama Board Bar Examiners since 1944.

Mr. Hepburn was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 5, 1900. He graduated from the University of Indiana in 1921 and received a law degree at Yale in 1928.

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 was born in San Francisco and received both his A. B. degree and Ph. D. from the University of California. He also studied at Stanford and at Cambridge University, in England.

Frederick H. Bullen, 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 special mediation officer in the

Cleveland area. He became the disputes director of the regional board before moving up as regional chairman. For a short period in 1950 he was impartial arbitrator for the Ford Motor Co. and the UAW. He is a graduate of Cornell University, is married, and has two children.

INDUSTRY MEMBERS

J. Ward Keener is vice president in charge of industrial relations of the B. F. Goodrich Co., of Akron, Ohio, where he has been since 1939. He was director of business research for the company for 3 years, assistant to the financial vice president and president for 4 years, and he has been vice president since 1946. Before coming to the Goodrich Co., he was assistant professor of economics at Ohio Wesleyan University for some years.

Mr. Keener was born in Portersville, Ala., on August 6, 1908. He graduated from Birmingham-Southern College in 1928 and holds a master's degree from the University of Chicago in 1930.

Henry B. Arthur is economist for Swift & Co., of Chicago, Ill. Although he has performed in many Government jobs and committees during his life, he has been with Swift & Co. since 1936. He began there in the commercial research department, and has been an officer of the company, economist, and manager of the commercial research department since 1939. Among his Government jobs have been consultant on rationing to the OPA in 1942-43 and chief of the program review section of the European office of ECA in Paris in 1948-49.

Mr. Arthur was born in Gloversville, N. Y., on April 24, 1904. He graduated from Union College in 1926, and received a master's degree from Harvard in 1931 and a Ph. D. from Harvard in 1935.

Reuben B. Robertson, Jr., is president of the Champion Paper & Fibre Co. of Hamilton, Ohio, where he has been since 1930. During the war, Mr. Robertson served with the Army, advancing from captain to lieutenant colonel. He was born in Asheville, N. C., on June 27, 1908, and received a degree in chemical engineering from the Sheffield Scientific School, of Yale University, in 1930.

Alexander R. Heron, of San Francisco, is vice president of the Crown-Zellerbach Corp., where he has been an official since 1927. He has been vice president and director of industrial public relations since 1942, and, in addition, was labor relations executive of the Pacific Coast Association of the Pulp and Paper Manufacturers' Association from 1934 to 1942. Mr. Heron has been an officer of the Army Quartermaster Reserve Corps since 1923, and served in 1942 as a colonel in charge of civilian personnel of the Army Service Forces. He has been consulting professor of industrial relations at Stanford University since 1940, and has been a lecturer and discussion leader at many industrial relations conferences through the years, including those at Princeton, the University of Michigan, Reed College, the University of Vermont, the University of Washington, the University of California, and Swarthmore College.

He was born in Flesherton, Ontario, Canada, on September 13, 1891, and gradated from Southwestern University, of Los Angeles, in 1916.

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 economics 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. He was born in Wilton, N. H., on May 5, 1905. He graduated from Clark University in 1925 and received a master's degree from Brown University in 1926.

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 to 1944. From 1922 to 1924, 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.

He was born in Rockford, Ill., on January 25, 1899. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1922, and received a master's degree from Michigan in 1931.

LABOR MEMBERS

Harry C. Bates has been president of the Bricklayers, Masons, and Plasterers International Union (AFL) since 1936. He has also been a member of the executive council of the A. F. of L. since 1934. During the war, he was a labor member of the Wage Adjustment Board for the Building and Construction Industry, both under the National War Labor Board and the National Wage Stabilization Board. He entered the trade as a bricklayer in Waco, Tex., in 1900, became a vice president of the international union in 1920, and was treasurer from 1924 to 1928.

He was born in Denton, Tex., on November 22, 1882.

Emil Rieve, who has been president of the Textile Workers Union of America since 1939, was an alternate labor member of the National War Labor Board during World War II and also a labor delegate to the President's Labor-Management Conference in 1945. He was president of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers from 1929 to 1939 and labor representative to the Code Authority for the Hosiery Industry in 1933 to 1935. He was also a member of Governor Lehman's special committee on the State defense council, and a labor advisory committeeman to the Council on National Defense. He has also been an alternate member of the National Mediation Board and a member of the United States Government Wage and Hour Commission. He was a United States labor representative to the International Labor Office in Geneva in 1936. Mr. Rieve was born in Poland on June 8, 1892.

Elmer E. Walker, a general vice president of the International Association of Machinists since 1945, was appointed a substitute A. F. of L. member of the National War Labor Board in 1944. He has been a machinist since 1918, and, until 1933, was a working tool and die maker in various places in the Midwest. He has been a union official since that time. During the war, Mr. Walker served in various posts with the Government, including periods as national field representative of the apprenticeship service in the tool and die industry, special assistant to WPB Assistant Director Joseph D. Keenan, Director of the Office of Labor Consultants of the Smaller War Plants Corporation, and held memberships on various commissions. He is now resident vice president of the IAM, is married, and lives in Silver Spring, Md.

Joseph A. Beirne, of Washington, has been president of the Communications Workers of America since it was formed in June 1947 and was president of its predecessor organization, the National Federation of Telephone Workers from 1943 on. Beirne has been a leader in the telephone union movement since 1938 when he led in formation of the National Association of Telephone Equipment Workers, operating in the distributing department of the Western Electric Co. Beirne was its first president, a job he held until he took over leadership of NFTW in 1943. Beirne was born in Jersey City, N. J., February 16, 1911. He is married, has three children, all girls.

William C. Birthright is president of the Journeyman Barbers, Hairdressers, and Cosmetologists International Union of America, and sixth ranking vice president of the A. F. of L. He has been a member of the A. F. of L. since 1908 and lives in Indianapolis, Ind. During the war, Mr. Birthright was chairman of the Marion County (Ind.) Draft Board, and he also served as a member and chairman of the Indiana State Personnel Board for 4 years. Earlier, he was secretary of the Tennessee Federation of Labor for 15 years. He was born in Helena, Ark., on May 27, 1887.

John W. Livingston has been vice president of the United Auto Workers, CIO, since 1947. He has been a member of the Auto Workers Union since its early days, coming from the Fisher Body plant in St. Louis. He helped to organize Federal Local 18386 in that plant and the union later became local 25 of the Auto Workers. He served four terms as president of the local union, 3 years as international representative in the General Motors department of the union, and then became, in 1942, a member of the international executive board of the UAW with eight States in the Southwest as his territory. Mr. Livingston was born on a farm near Iberia, Mo., on August 17, 1908. He is married and has no children.

Senator HUMPHREY. Dr. Taylor, I have taken on the task of attempting to formulate a few questions that might further develop and document in some more detail the statement which you have made this morning. There are a number of questions, obvious questions, that members of this committee are concerned with.

First of all, as you have noted, the Wage Stabilization Board was established under the Defense Production Act of 1950 by Executive Order 10233 of April 21, 1951. Now, Dr. Taylor, I would like to ask as my first question: How does this Board, your Wage Stabilization Board, with its stabilization policy and program, as well as its dispute powers, fit in with the requirements of titles 4 and 5 of the Defense Production Act?

Dr. TAYLOR. As respects the dispute settlement function of the Board it has no relationship to title 5 of the act. It is a disputesettling function which does not come about through that route. As we understand title 5 of the act, and looking at the legislative history, there was contemplated a War Labor Board type of agency where management and labor would arrive at an understanding that there would be no strikes, and that a Board with rather broad jurisdiction would be established to enter into labor disputes upon its own motion, to intervene in work stoppages which might interfere with the defense production effort. I think it might very well be, as we go along, that the necessity for creating that type of board with more compulsion involved in its procedures might become necessary.

For the moment, there has been established a board to treat those problems which arise out of the changes in collective bargaining which have occurred as a result of the mobilization program and its various ramifications. I know it is my hope that we might be able to meet the problems within this machinery short of the title 5 machinery. And it could very well be, I think, that the less compulsive type of board will suffice.

Senator HUMPHREY. Senator Taft, we have just completed the statement by Dr. Taylor, a copy of which is before you, and at this point I was asking Dr. Taylor a question. I have a series of questions that pertain to references in his statement as well as to other matters which he touched upon, but not in detail. The first question that I had asked was, How does the Board as it is presently constituted fit in with the requirements of titles 4 and 5 of the Defense Production Act?

Dr. Taylor was saying that insofar as the disputes section is concerned, or the dispute powers, that that was not directly related to the language of title 5 or the requirements of title 5, that it was related to the change in the collective bargaining pattern that automatically follows from wage stabilization policies and a defense mobilization program.

Possibly you would like to repeat some of that, because this is, I am sure, of interest to all of the committee.

Dr. TAYLOR. Yes. Shall I repeat it?

Senator TAFT. Well, what I wondered is, is the Board entirely extra legal? It has no legal standing whatsoever except as a wage-fixing board; has it?

Dr. TAYLOR. Well, the Board operates under the Defense Production Act.

Senator TAFT. How can it if it does not perform under Section 5? Dr. TAYLOR. As I understand it, it is not a title 5 board as respects the disputes settlement functions, but one which has been established to deal with the problems which flow out of the wage stabilization responsibilities.

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