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...Wagner Act: in the Senate, 49 Democrats, twelve Republicans; in the House, an overwhelming voice vote. For Taft-Hartley: in the Senate, 47 Republicans. 21 Democrats; in the House, 215 Republicans, 93 Democrats...
...recommendations on labor law, which went to Congress this week, were cut out of the same cloth as his State of the Union message. He recognized that the Wagner Act, passed "by bipartisan majorities" in 1935, was necessary to protect the workingman. He noted that the Taft-Hartley Act, passed "by bipartisan majorities"*i n 1947, was necessary to cope with the new power of unions. Taft-Hartley is sound legislation, Eisenhower said, but experience gained under it "indicates that changes can be made to reinforce its basic objectives...
...President as their real representative. This failure is writ large across the many items of his own program labeled "unfinished business." Revision of the McCarran Immigration Act, for which scores of urban nationality groups had petitioned, and which the President had pledged, never came about. The promised Taft-Hartley amendments were lost somewhere in the White House political shuffle...
Kennedy wants action in the areas where, he says, federal law permits conditions in the South which are "unfair or substandard by any criterion." He snuggles up to the Fair Deal line long enough to blame the Taft-Hartley law for crippling union organization in the South.* He is on far sounder ground when he recommends an increase in the outdated 75? an-hour minimum wage (which provides the wage floor in some rural Southern plants) and abolition of the device of "learners' permits," which allow even lower pay. Federal-tax amortization benefits, he says, have been "disproportionately granted...
...Union organization in the South lagged before the Wagner Act was passed and after it was passed; it still lagged after Taft-Hartley replaced the Wagner...