Word: hartley
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...another occasion last year the public Relations office scheduled an information broadcast, where an economics instructor was to speak for several minutes on the Taft-Hartley Act. It was reported that the Public Relations office asked the instructor to change his script because it was not objective enough. The speaker refused and so the speech was cancelled...
...Harry Truman was willing enough to purge some Congressmen if he could. He had failed in his all-out attempt to repeal the Taft-Hartley act because too many Democrats had voted against it. His legislative leaders were dejectedly advising compromise. Labor leaders came in to commiserate and to counsel...
Then A.F.L.'s President William Green stomped in to tell the President that A.F.L. would be willing to take a new Taft-Hartley substitute-the Sims bill-with some changes. He came out of the White House shaking his head: "We're willing to give a few inches, but he's not budging...
...Horse Again. Democrats cheered with relief. They had not won anything; they had simply turned aside what would have been a humiliating defeat. The Taft-Hartley Act still stood, untouched, on the books. While the fight shifted to the Senate, the House Labor Committee would try to figure a way out of the Administration's dilemma: how to toughen up the old Wagner Act enough to win back Southern support, without making it so tough that Northern Democrats would rebel...
Harry Truman bled for a while in silence. Then he picked himself up and told everyone firmly that he felt fine. Furthermore, he said, he was going to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act, even if it took him the rest of his four years...