Word: bill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wind. It was the end not only of that battle but of the war. The vote on the injunction showed the way the wind was blowing and Taft rode the wind to one of the most spectacular triumphs of his career. He offered an amendment to the Thomas bill which actually was a second serving of the Taft-Hartley Act, thinned down with 27 changes...
Majority Leader Lucas, who knew when he was licked, agreed to a vote on the Taft substitute and saw it pass by 49-44. Utah's stolid, scholarly Elbert Thomas, noting sadly that only the first two lines of his bill were left when Taft got through, disowned the whole business. At his suggestion the bill was renamed the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1949, but, as old Bill Green had indicated, it would be known familiarly as the Taft bill...
...permit employers to give unions priority on jobs, thus opening the door to the hiring halls supposedly locked up by the Taft-Hartley Act. There would still be bans on mass picketing and jurisdictional strikes, but the ban on secondary boycotts would be slightly relaxed. The new Taft bill would also require management as well as union bosses to sign non-Communist affidavits ; lift Taf t-Hartley's ban on workers voting in a plant election while they were on strike; take away the independent, sometimes overweening authority of the NLRB's general counsel...
...this went for nothing. Lucas predicted that President Truman would veto the Taft bill if it should pass the House (as was very unlikely). Then the old Taft-Hartley Act, with all the faults in it that Taft admitted to, would remain the nation's labor law. Why? Because the Administration, for obvious political reasons, didn't want it improved; it only wanted to kill it-but couldn...
...bill before the House was almost a carbon copy of the housing bill already passed by the Senate, which had the support of many Republicans-including Robert Taft (TIME, May 2). But in the House, a group of Republicans led by Minority Leader Joe Martin and Indiana's Charlie Halleck fought the bill every inch of the way. It was, Halleck shouted, "another dangerous plunge in ... our headlong rush to overcentralization of control...