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129:" and on support from the courts. He noted that court decisions did not take note of a company's union status." Also, issues like "union bargaining and minority rights were not answered." Later, Kovner recalled that the CIO viewed the NLRB "as essentially doing the work of the CIO."
252:(One biography of Silbergeld mentions that Joseph Kovner "was a liberal lawyer who was ousted from his government job by the House Un-American Activities Committee" who then moved to New Hampshire and only returned to Washington "when the political climate had changed enough.")
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Pressman as factionalism developed with the CIO over its policies. A central issue was CIO's foreign policy, heavily influenced by Pressman's push for pro-Soviet stance. For example, after the
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came to be questioned. Her appointment book of 1938 showed a list of attendees (at a
Communist-affiliated conference by the Industrial Relations Institute in Mexico City) that included Joseph Kovner, CIO lawyer.
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September 1939, Pressman remained pro-Soviet, while Kovner and Smith let anti-Nazism guide them. In early years of World War II, the pact led Pressman to oppose the
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Pressman was the power guy. He was the man who would push things on the power front. He would take a position and go forward with it, and would catch up with the law.
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315:"Local Union Structure: Formality and Reality,"
388:Carol Weiss King, human rights lawyer, 1895-1952
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971:"Local Union Structure: Formality and Reality"
686:. Louisiana State University Press. p. 166
308:"Basic Issues Between ITU and the T-H Law," in
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186:. Pressman replaced them with Eugene Cotton.
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