Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill was now being put together by a ten-man Senate-House conference committee, which was combining the Senate's Taft bill with the House's Hartley bill. The two measures attacked many similar points which would almost certainly appear in the final draft. If enacted, the nation's new labor law would...
Peace in Our Time? The Senate bill would create a Joint Congressional Committee on Labor Management, along the lines proposed by President Truman, to study the whole field of industrial relations and report back to Congress not later than...
That in itself was an admission that the bill would not be perfect. Like all legislation, it would be the result of compromise. Both the Taft and Hartley bills were needlessly complex, and had some confusing passages. Neither represented a fresh start on the labor problem. They were amendments-fairly substantial-of the Wagner Act. But they in no way interfered with the basic purpose of that act, which was to establish labor's right to organize...
...final bill would take Government off the side of labor in labor disputes and put it back in the role of mediator. It would not break Big Labor's monopoly, but it would force Big Labor to recruit its members by persuasion rather than by Government fiat. It would not put any further economic risk into strikes, but it would make it more difficult to call them. It would try, by legal means, to make labor responsible-which it had not been under the free-&-easy Wagner...
Whether the bill would bring peace to industry remained to be seen. New rules would provoke new challenges, raise new questions, require new interpretations. Their workability would also depend on labor's political power and on the economic atmosphere. Whether the amendments were practical, as the Wagner Act was not, would have to be determined pragmatically. Lawyers got ready for a field...