Although the WLB operated in routinized and bureaucratic ways, its decisions could also carry powerful ideological messages. That became clear in the following document, which insisted upon the policy of equal pay for equal work—a seemingly self-evident principle that was not standard practice in American industry. This board decision mandated equal pay for women.
The application of the Order [General Order No. We have found from experience that there has been some tendency to abuse this rule of equal pay for equal work. This refers particularly to job classifications to which only women have been assigned in the past.
Under the direction of former president William Howard Taft and the labor lawyer Frank Walsh, the board persuaded industry to improve working conditions and wages and open themselves to negotiations with their employees for labor contracts.
In exchange for not striking, unions were able to add more than a million members in two years. After the war, the work of the National War Labor Board was praised by progressives.
A statement by Catholic Bishops in February described the board as follows: Its main guiding principles have been a family living wage for all male adult laborers; recognition of the right of labor to organize and to deal with employers through its chosen representatives; and no coercion of nonunion laborers by members of the union.
The War Labor Board ought to be continued in existence by Congress and endowed with all the powers for effective action that it can possess under the federal Constitution.
Top Skip to main content. The Board was composed of 12 members, four representatives each of industry, labor, and the public. Like its predecessor the National Defense Mediation Board, the NWLB only handled disputes, including wage disputes, certified to it by the Secretary of Labor after the United States Conciliation Service had failed to effect settlement, but the Board had the authority to take up a case on its own motion after consultation with the Secretary of Labor.
Initially, the Board centralized in operation in D. Mounting case load led to regionalization: 10 regional offices were created on November 22, and two more added on January 21, The NWLB further decentralized by creating special tripartite industry commissions and panels to deal with particular industries on a national, rather than a regional, basis. With the end of the war came the question of maintaining wage controls during the reconversion period.
The primary goal of the National Wage Stabilization Board, contained within the Department of Labor, was to administer the wage and salary stabilization program during the reconversion period and to continue certain minor dispute functions of its predecessor. Direct wage controls were limited to the consideration of proposals for wage decreases, the establishment of rates for new occupations or departments, and all wage and salary adjustments in the building and constructing industry.
The National Board, and each regional Board, consisted of six members, two representatives each of industry, labor, and the public. In November , President Harry S. Truman announced the removal of virtually all price controls and all wage and salary controls.
Executive Order terminated the Board effective February 24, The Regional office was established as part of the Office for Emergency Management on November 22, The records created by the National War Labor Board and the National Wage Stabilization Board are maintained separately, though there is some continuity between series created by these two authorities.
Contact them at atlanta. General Correspondence, Entry National Archives Identifier Central Files, Meeting Minutes, Records Relating to the Appointment of Arbitrators, General Records, Press Releases, Materials for Distribution, Some records are stored off-site and must be requested and retrieved in advance.
Enforcement Case Files, Index to Enforcement Case Files, Indexes to Enforcement Case Files, Dispute Case Files, Indexes to Dispute Case Files, Historical and Policy Documentation Files, Wage-Stabilization Inspection Reports, Records Relating to Compliance Cases,
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