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...Taft-Hartley Act attempted to break Communist control of unions by requiring officers of labor unions to sign non-Communist affidavits before their unions could be certified as bargaining agents. This section in the law has been a flop. Officers of Communist-run unions have simply resigned formally from the party, signed an affidavit, then continued their Red activities as before. Nevertheless, the NLRB has been ordered by the courts to take the affidavits at face value and to certify the unions...
Four of the 15 soon were driving Studebakers-and were back at work. But Kovach appealed his dismissal to the National Labor Relations Board, arguing that under the Taft-Hartley Act it was unfair for the company to fire him to enforce any union rule unrelated to the payment of union dues. Said he: "I work my 40 hours, earn my pay. What I do with my money is my own business." Last week the NLRB agreed with Kovach, cited both union and Studebaker for an unfair labor practice...
...station's programs. The employees were fired-for just and sufficient cause, ruled the NLRB, because the handbills had nothing to do with the union issue. The U.S. court of appeals for the District of Columbia reversed the NLRB's decision, called the discharges unlawful under Taft-Hartley Act guarantees against firing for union activity. This week the Supreme Court, by a vote of 6-3, had the final word, decided that the form of attack on WBTV was not a "union activity." Said Justice Harold Burton, delivering the majority opinion: "There is no more elemental cause...
...affiliates to negotiate guaranteed annual wage agreements"-a pet project of Reuther's. ¶ Demanded that the federal minimum wage, now 75? an hour, be raised to $1.25. Even that, said Reuther, is "not adequate," just a "first step." ¶Called for repeal of the Taft-Hartley act. Earlier, the delegates heard Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell suggest that they "preclude further talk of repeal" and "concentrate on those features of the law which are really dangerous to labor, really loaded, really unfair." Mitchell did not say what unfair features he was talking about...
Even with its admitted faults, the Taft-Hartley Act has been successful in practice. Filling a need in labor-management legislation, the act deserves careful study and revision. The cool reception which union members have accorded Eisenhower's cloudy promises should be a warning to the Administration that revisions in the law are essential and should top the agenda when Congress reconvenes...