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...plain fact was that Harry's strike was never necessary. The shipowners had offered his longshoremen wage boosts, had agreed to let his union run the hiring halls until the Supreme Court should rule on their legality under the Taft-Hartley Act. East Coast, Gulf and Great Lakes maritime unions had accepted similar terms. But Bridges struck anyway...
With that, the shipowners determined to break Bridges' 18-year grip on the West Coast. They withdrew their offers, and took the position that they could not negotiate at all so long as Bridges and other Maritime Union chiefs refused to sign the Taft-Hartley law's non-Communist affidavit. The owners showed every sign of being prepared to sit it out until Bridges was busted. Bridges had the choice of eating crow or explaining to his members why they should continue a strike which had cost them more than $5,000,000 in wages...
Getting down to current issues, Morse promised that he would press the fight in the Senate on Civil Rights legislation, outlawing of present filibuster techniques, amending of Taft-Hartley labor, bill, and insuring of Congressional actin on all treaties and 'executive agreements." The Oregon Senator stated that he thought war was not imminent. "However, I do feel that the greatest danger to peace now comes from the Pacific area," he continued, "and not from the Berlin crisis...
...made a few specific promises: an increased minimum wage, broadened and increased social-security benefits, a strengthened Department of Labor, vigorous antitrust enforcement, action to "break the log jam in housing" and to halt "soaring prices." But he left labor still wondering what Taft-Hartley changes, if any, he would propose. Said Dewey: "The new law is not perfect. No law, or any other human handiwork is perfect. It can always be improved and wherever and whenever it needs change it will be changed...
...geyser did not fail them. He began with the charge that Harry Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act was a piece of hypocrisy. "He did not try to have his veto sustained . . . because he preferred to have the bill enacted, so that in this campaign he could ask for support on the ground that he had vetoed...