Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Shot. The C.I.O. and A.F.L., working separately but on parallel tracks, opened their legal campaign. There was ample precedent for such tactics. All important laws get their court tests, and labor laws get the most stringent tests of all. In 1936, management blasted away at the Wagner Act with 83 test suits in the first ten months...
...major auto contract (see BUSINESS). The plan gave some promise of removing insecurity, which in the end underlies all labor strife. Labor leaders and management both hailed it. But it did not affect the main issue. Across the nation, labor's fight on the Taft-Hartley Act would go on until every sentence had been challenged and bitterly tested...
Harry Truman's duty was clear. As Chief Executive, he had to enforce the Taft-Hartley Labor Act, which he had vetoed and denounced as "unworkable," "burdensome" and "disruptive." Solemnly, last week, he pledged himself to see that the new law was "well and faithfully administered." He called on management and labor to exercise "patience and moderation." Said he: "Industrial strife at this critical time can result only in economic dislocation injurious...
...Debate. Harry Truman had no choice. Others did. Minutes after the Senate overrode the President's veto, the National Labor Relations Board's general counsel, Gerhard P. Van Arkel, resigned, declaring that he had "grave doubts concerning both the workability and the fairness of this act...
...three members of the NLRB (Chairman Paul M. Herzog, John M. Houston, James J. Reynolds Jr.) answered a summons to the White House. After an hour's talk, they issued a statement: "The debate is over. . . . This board will. . . give the new act the fairest and most efficient administration that lies in its power...