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...more to the point. In an era when the pace of social as well as technological change seems to be accelerating at a geometrical rate, the Congress tends to grind exceeding slow. The hyperactive 89th Congress is atypical; on Capitol Hill it is normally easier to obstruct than to enact. To appreciate how Congress usually functions, we need only go back to the first session of the 88th Congress in 1963. Then the House was wallowing in inaction, ignoring the Administration's advice and paying heed to the since discredited economic myths opposing the tax cut and the racist opposition...
Opposed were the delegates from the country's two largest unions, the Transport and General Workers' Union and the Amalgamated Engineering Union. Orated Clive Jenkins, leader of the superintendents' and technicians' union: "No party could enact legislation so obnoxious as this and continue to call itself either democratic or socialistic." Deputy Prime Minister George Brown rose to defend the measure. "There is coming about a recognition that we are partners in an industrial democracy," he insisted. His words won the day-and approval for Wilson's wages plan...
...tried by the Retail Clerks, used low-keyed, soft-sell TV spots. But some of labor's public relations snags will take more than TV to solve. Union leaders have used their tremendous influence to fight Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act, which permits states to enact right-of-work laws (its repeal was passed by the House, is now before the Senate). No doubt, union membership has been held down by 14(b), particularly in the South. But the gains made, when and if it is repealed, may well be offset by adverse public sentiment; many...
...reason for the delay is rooted in still more ancient history. The Christian Democrats have proposed emergency legislation three times in the past eleven years, but since it would amount to a constitutional revision, they need a two-thirds majority in the Bundestag to enact it. Willy Brandt's Social Democrats have always opposed the bills, partly because they disagreed with various clauses, but mainly because of the implacable opposition of the trade unions to the whole idea. Union leaders are still haunted by memories of 1933, when Adolf Hitler, upon the famous pretext of the Reichstag fire, used...
Section 14(b) gives to the states the right to enact their own right-to-work laws banning union-shop contracts. Nineteen states* have done that, and of the entire Taft-Hartley law, 14(b) has become the section most odious to labor leaders. As a Congressman, Lyndon Johnson voted for Taft-Hartley and to override President Truman's veto. But last year, as he set out to gather votes from every segment of U.S. society, he made clear to A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany that he would seek repeal of 14(b), saw to it that the pledge...