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    "ocrText": "#141 -- 4\n041\nmediate had been rejected by the Union. This rejection occurred\nlast Friday, August 24, and the Union requested our Board to act.\nThe Board immediately called in the Union Committee and conferred\nwith it throughout the week-end. On Monday the Board dispatched\ninvitations to the Cotton Textile Institute, the Cotton Textile\nNational Industrial Relations Board and the Union Committee to\nattend a round table conference. On Wednesday the President of\nthe Cotton Textile Institute declined the invitation.\n\"The Board being unable to bring about a joint conference,\nwhich the Board believed held out the only real possibility of\naverting the strike, separate conferences were held with repre-\nsentatives of the Cotton Textile Institute and the Union. In\nthese conferences the Board made every possible effort to find\nsome formula for avoiding the strike, but without success.\n\"As a matter of policy we doubt the wisdom of the Board's\nacting as mediator in this or any other strike situation. Media-\ntion is frequently carried on by the regional labor boards,\nwhich are under the jurisdiction of this Board; but it has been\nour conviction that the purposes of Public Resolution 44 and the\nExecutive Order establishing this Board could best be served if\nthe Board kept itself clear of mediation activities. It is evi-\ndent that the Public Resolution and the Executive Order intended\nour Board to serve as a quasi-court for interpreting in terms of\nparticular cases the meaning and intent of section 7 (a).\n\" As a semi-judicial body it is desirable that we be as far\nremoved as possible from direct participation in controversies\nover some aspects of which we may at a later date be asked to\nsit in judgment. The Board ought not to be placed in a position\nwhich might hamper respect for its judicial activities and hinder\nits effectiveness as a body for building up public opinion in\nsupport of disinterested interpretations of the law. It is true\nthat under the Public Resolution and the Executive Order the\nBoard is authorized to investigate issues in controversies which\nare burdening interstate commerce, but in our judgment this\npower should be exercised sparingly, and rather for the purpose\nof ascertaining the facts prior to a strike situation, than for\nthe purpose of settling it after it has occurred.\n\"In deference to the important function which we have been\ncreated by you to discharge, we believe that the public inter-\nest would best be served by our immediate withdrawal from\nfurther mediation efforts in the textile strike. From our\nknowledge of the situation we are satisfied that mediation look-\ning toward a termination of the strike can best go forward by\nyour creating a special board under Public Resolution 44, with\nfull authority to investigate the causes of the strike and to\npropose a just basis of settlement.\n\"We shall be glad to assist such a board in whatever ways\nseem appropriate and in conformity with the general purposes"
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