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...small-arms manufacturers, drew a bead on C.I.O.'s United Electrical, Radio & Machinery Workers of America. Colt charged that the union's record "of obstructing national policies" might endanger the company's fulfillment of armament orders, and refused to renew its contract. Under the Taft-Hartley law, the union could not bring charges of unfair labor practices before the National Labor Relations Board; its officers had refused to swear they were not Communists...
Involved in the wage dispute are some 25,000 members of the American Union of Telephone Workers, a CIO affiliate. After the union threatened to strike this week if their demands are not met. President Truman took over the industry under the provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act. Appointment of the fact-finding board will defer strike action until a report is made...
...which was supposed to be so good that railway workers were exempted from the provisions of the Taft-Hartley...
...busiest week of the session. Besides voting overwhelmingly in favor of air power, it came to grips with everything from U.N. revision to the long-range housing bill (see Housing). In the Senate, Minnesota's Joe Ball hitched up his trousers for a whirl at refurbishing the Taft-Hartley law. In the House, committeemen met behind closed doors to debate extension of the reciprocal trade agreements...
...were three months ahead of Congress on the draft in 1940, nine months ahead on repeal of the neutrality embargo, two years ahead on spreading the income-tax burden from 4 to 40 million U.S. citizens. They advocated revision of the Wagner Act long before Congress passed the Taft-Hartley law. If Congress were legislating according to Gallup Poll preferences, the U.S. would now have universal military training, price control, rationing, direct election of the President and a 49th state (Hawaii...