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Show House Group Suggests Two More Members on NLRB WASHINGTON, March 19 (AP) The house labor committtee voted, 14 to 3, Tuesday to recommend to congress that the national labor relations board be increased from three to five members. Chairman Norton tD., N. J.) announced an-nounced the decision at the end of a two-hour closed committee meeting. meet-ing. She said It was decided "by a close vote" to reject proposal to abolish the present board and create cre-ate a new one. Discussing the Increase In the board membership, Mrs. Norton said: "This step seems sbsolutely necessary. nec-essary. "A great many people take the position that if two more members were added to the board a lot of other complaints would go out tne window. That seem to be where they all start. "Apparently there has been more or less of a deadlock in the board and by adding two members we certainly would destroy the effect of that. If there is such a thing." William L. Leiserson accused his two colleagues on the labor board of upsetting rather than encourag-Inging encourag-Inging collective bargaining relationships rela-tionships by one of their decisions. Leiserson dissented from a majority ma-jority opinion ordering the Mc-Quay-Norris Manufacturing company com-pany of Indianapolis to incorporate in a signed agreement with the United Auto Workers (C I O) a clause giving the union exclusive recognition as bargaining agent for all production employers in the unit. The board majority Chairman J. Warren Madden and Edwin S. Smith held that the company had failed to engage in collective bargaining bar-gaining as contemplated by the Wagner act through refusing to write such a clause Into the agreement. agree-ment. The union's majority status, they said, was conceded by the company. |