Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reaction was prompt. Said New York's Senator Irving Ives,who had often taken labor's part in debate and committee room: "[The veto message] is the worst possible interpretation of the provisions of the bill, based on the assumption of the worst possible administration of the act." While the bill's opponents in the Senate filibustered desperately to delay the vote (see The Congress), Senator Robert Taft went on the air half an hour after Harry Truman finished his broadcast and took up Harry Truman's speech...
...rights of the parties to bargain, in no way limits the right to strike . . . except in the case of a nationwide strike. . . . There might be something in the argument [if] the Government had not intervened in every collective bargaining on the side of labor. . . . The administration of the Wagner Act . . . made it so one-sided as to produce a general public demand that the law operate both ways. This is the effect of the new bill...
...Taft-Hartley Act-officially the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947 -is the first fundamental change in labor-relations ground rules in nearly twelve years. By expert analysis, these are some of the things it will...
Employers will be able to speak freely to their employees on labor policies, demand elections if they think the union no longer represents the majority of their workers. Unions will be required to act responsibly, will be held more closely to their contracts...
President Truman's courage in opposing again a Congress plainly eager to demonstrate his ineffectualness is therefore laudable. The effect of his veto is likely to be the elimination of the import-fee amendment, and the final shifting of the burden to the Treasury. This act of sweeping the business out of public sight under the rug would obviously be no final answer to the wool wrangle. It would at least, though, spare America the irony of talking world stability up big at Geneva, while at the same time giving it a kick in the stomach long-distance from Washington...