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From the Taft-Hartley and Wagner Acts it would keep...
...labor bill. Five Cabinet members at one time or other sat in on the sessions. When they were done, A.F.L. and C.I.O. leaders were called in to have a look at it. After all, Harry Truman had made a campaign promise to labor-to kill the Taft-Hartley law, which the unions had branded the "slave labor law." The union men looked over Truman's new bill, and didn't like the provision for federal injunctions, in strikes affecting the national welfare. Harry Truman ordered it out. The union leaders went away happy, with what amounted...
Labor Secretary Maurice Tobin put the bill in his tan briefcase one evening last week and went up to Capitol Hill to deliver it in person. Of the Taft-Hartley Act provisions it would kill...
...Communist oath for union officials; the requirement that unions be liable for most of the labor practices that Taft-Hartley had defined as "unfair...
...There were signs that the Administration itself, having made a down payment on its debt to labor, wouldn't mind too much if a few amendments were tacked back on. The non-Communist oath, for example, might be put back. And Harry Truman, who had found the Taft-Hartley injunction a handy weapon to use in four national-emergency strikes, might like to have it around again...