Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the Administration was preparing to use the Taft-Hartley Act in the coal strike (see above), Taft-Hartley machinery was already at work on two other strike fronts: at the Oak Ridge atom plant, where a labor dispute threatened the heart of U.S. war strength; in the meat-packing industry, where a walkout of packinghouse workers had halved the nation's meat supply...
...hours before a midnight strike deadline, the Government took a step under Taft-Hartley. For the first time in the history of the act it slapped down an injunction. The injunction kept the 800 workers at their jobs, forbade Carbide & Carbon from changing the conditions of the old contract. The length of the injunction: 80 days. Meanwhile the Government will look for some way to mend the first labor fission in the atomic world...
...paralysis spread, the Administration considered the next move: using the emergency machinery ultimately to get an injunction, force Lewis to keep the mines operating until every possible solution had been explored. This machinery was provided by the Taft-Hartley Act, which Harry Truman once denounced as "cumbersome and ineffective ... a clear threat to the successful working of our democratic society...
Jimmy Petrillo was afraid of being thrown and hog-tied by the Taft-Hartley Act. As a result the radio networks found that Jimmy was just about the nicest fellow who had ever picked up a fountain pen. He gave up his plan of making their key stations hire more musicians. He agreed not to ask for a pay increase. He decided, after three years of stubborn resistance, to let union musicians appear on television programs. When he signed a new three-year contract last week, NBC's Vice President Frank Mullen couldn't resist giving...
Secretary Marshall affirms, America does not act accordingly...