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information may be out of date.
For more information call: (202) 371-6422.
Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich is scheduled to speak at
the seventh annual induction ceremony of the Labor Hall of Fame at 4 p.m.,
Thursday, Jan. 5, in the auditorium of the Labor Department's Frances Perkins
Building in Washington, D.C.
George W. Taylor, considered the "father of American
arbitration," will become the 18th person to be added to the Hall of Fame,
which posthumously honors representatives of labor, industry, government and
the academic community who have made major contributions to the welfare of
America's working men and women.
Taylor, who died in 1972, was a longtime professor at the
University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce. Credited
with settling more than 2,000 labor- management disputes during his career, he
served in important capacities under five presidents, starting with President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who named Taylor chairman of the War Labor Board
during World War II.
Among Taylor's many accomplishments was his role in
developing the Wagner Act, or National Labor Relations Act, which gave unions
the right to organize during the 1930s. He also helped draft the Social
Security Act and New York State's Taylor Law, governing public sector labor
relations.
One of the achievements of which Taylor was proudest was
his role in creating the plan under which members of the United Steelworkers of
America shared the benefits of automation at Kaiser Steel Corporation.
His arbitration work covered many industries, including
clothing, autos, construction, railroads, steel and copper. He was presented
the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
A film highlighting Taylor's life will be shown at
Thursday's ceremony and will become part of the Labor Hall of Fame exhibit,
located in the Perkins building lobby.
In addition to Secretary Reich, Thursday's program will
include remarks by:
- Former Labor Secretary W.J. Usery, Jr., chairman of Friends of the
Department of Labor, which sponsors the Labor Hall of Fame with the Labor
Department;
- Former Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz, member of the hall of fame
selection panel;
- Former Assistant Labor Secretary Michael H. Moskow, a selection panel
member who currently is president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago;
- Monsignor George C. Higgins of Catholic University, selection panel
chairman
- Edward B. Shils, George W. Taylor Emeritus Professor of
Entrepreneurial Management at the Wharton School.
Richard Conn, executive director of Friends of the
Department of Labor, will welcome guests. Those present are expected to include
members of the Industrial Relations Research Association, of which Taylor
served as president.
Archived News Release--Caution:
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