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...that certain unnamed Taftmen will be considered for jobs in the new Administration; 2) Ike promises that certain unnamed Ikemen will not be made Secretary of State ("It's a safe bet," wrote Lahey, "that one of them is Governor Dewey"); 3) Ike will not "repudiate" the Taft-Hartley law even by indirection; 4) Ike will conduct his campaign more like what Taft calls an authentic Republican...
...until Labor Day it was not so much what Adlai Stevenson said as the way he said it. At Detroit this week the Democratic candidate formally opened his campaign with a speech that contained more meat than sauce. He stepped briskly into the hot fight over the Taft-Hartley law, demanded its repeal and called for a new law based on "five general principles...
Three: "A new Federal labor law must outlaw unfair bargaining practices by employers and unions." Stevenson noted that "unions have protested vigorously against" Taft-Hartley's ban on unfair union practices as compared to the Wagner Act, which forbade only unfair employer practices. 'In principle. Stevenson seemed to prefer Taft-Hartley on this point. "It is only common sense . . . that we must forbid . . . jurisdictional strikes, and strikes or boycotts attempting to force an employer to deal with one union when another has been certified as the representative of his employees." Taft-Hartley's provisions on this point...
...this [campaign] season, Republican candidates are even forgiven for whispering that there could be a better law than the Taft-Hartley Act . . . This is indeed a truly remarkable interval, a sort of pause in the Republican occupation, and I've often thought that it might well be called the liberal hour. I think it should never be confused with any period when Congress is in session...
...claim to the planes. Red guards were admitted to the British airfield where the planes were parked: they shooed away all visitors. Finally Chennault took his appeal to Britain's court of last resort, the Lords of Appeal of the high & mighty Privy Council in London. Bewigged Sir Hartley Shawcross, Q.C., Laborite attorney general and now a top-priced barrister, pleaded Chennault's case...