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...Repeal of the Taft-Hartley...
...meeting determined opposition. The special interests are fighting us just as if they never heard of November the 2nd." The special interests were trying to save the Taft-Hartley Act, he said. They were fighting his welfare measures, blocking the low-rent housing program, trying to keep minimum wages at starvation levels and destroy the farm price support program. The special interests were working through lobbies, editorial pages, columnists and commentators. "This one-sided barrage of propaganda seems overwhelming at first. There are no full-page ads on our side. In fact, all we have on our side...
Before the storm broke, the Senate hustled to get some of its cargo under cover. After 3½ weeks of listening to 50 witnesses, the Senate Labor Committee got down to the business of writing a new labor law to replace Taft-Hartley. The Banking Committee, with the support of 22 Senators from both sides of the aisle, brought out a housing bill which would provide 810,000 low-rent housing units by 1955, just about halfway between Harry Truman's request and Republican counterproposals...
...sweated, the Senate, which would probably have to take final responsibility for extracting Rankin's stinger, was in almost as waspish a mood last week. After listening to A.F.L.'s 75-year-old President Bill Green, as he doggedly resisted anything but outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley Law, Ohio's Robert Taft finally exploded in exasperation: "Mr. Green, I don't want to make a speech. But it seems to me you are claiming the most extraordinary privilege any organization ever claimed in the United States...
Replied Bill Green: "All right, Senator. We know when a measure strikes at our heart and when it does not." Labor's opposition to Taft-Hartley, said Green, was "as uncompromising and rigid as was the opposition of our forefathers, the colonists, to Great Britain when it imposed upon them government without representation...