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...thought. My general impression is that the people who are thinking at all are overwhelmingly on the conservative side. I talked with a lot of workmen and many of them don't have views one way or the other. Certainly they are not concerned about the Taft-Hartley law . . . There is no grass-roots objection, it all comes from the top." After one meeting, Taft remarked: "I guess they don't hate me as much as they're supposed...
...given up. The three-day week had saved him from a possible Taft-Hartley injunction, would keep the rank & file quiet and keep the coal stockpile down to a size where he might be able to use a coal shortage as a bargaining weapon. Lewis had also gained time in which to try to divide management by making separate agreements-a strategy which Phil Murray had used successfully against the steel industry. He badly needed...
...explained, because it would take control of the Northwest from the states and hand it over to the Federal Government. He was against the health bill for much the same reason. But, he warned, "The doctors are in the same position [as labor when it got Taft-Hartley] . . . Unless they are willing to sit down and help work out a sound program of health insurance, they will get legislation they won't care for a little...
Harry Truman, as he explained to reporters, felt that the time had not yet come to toss a Taft-Hartley injunction at the 480,000 United Mine Workers. John Lewis, it was true, had merely suspended his coal strike and was threatening to start it again Dec. 1. But there was no national emergency yet, at least as the President saw it. If one materialized, the Taft-Hartley Act would be trundled into...
When the Taft-Hartley Act banned the closed shop from union contracts, the International Typographical Union figured out a simple dodge. The printers refused to renew their contracts, but insisted that publishers agree instead to informal "conditions of employment" which actually kept the closed shop in operation. Many newspapers agreed; the Chicago publishers refused, and the I.T.U. struck. To test the legality of the printers' policy, the American Newspaper Publishers Association and the Chicago Newspaper Publishers Association filed separate suits against the I.T.U. before the National Labor Relations Board. Last week, six weeks after the Chicago publishers...