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...Senate hoped to reach a final vote on the bill this week. Its actions to date seemed to indicate that nothing so strong as the House's Hartley bill would reach the President's desk...
Balance of Power. The bill had some holes in it; some of the ground rules were vaguely denned. But essentially it accomplished what Labor Chairman Fred Hartley Jr. and his committeemen wanted. It would restore the balance of power in labor dealings to management, which, in the apparent opinion of a majority of U.S. Congressmen, is where it belongs in a system of free enterprise...
Organized labor wailed in agony. William Green had declared: "Hartley will be classified as one of labor's chief enemies." C.I.O. spokesmen called the measure "a poisonous witches' brew." Old New Dealers in Congress echoed them...
Coming just at the time when the conduct of labor and management indicates that these two groups have developed a modicum of responsibility extending beyond their own pocket-lining, the Hartley bill, passed by the House and awaiting Senate action, threatens to annul whatever facility in the art of resolving labor disputes has been acquired in the last decade. Opponents have charged that the bill is the product of spite and rancour. But even if it was framed with the best motives, the fact that it issued from a committee whose chairman was so interested in labor affairs that...
...Hartley bill proposes to return the injunction as an anti-strike weapon, to outlaw industry-wide bargaining, the closed shop, the check-off of union dues, and to permit the union shop only with the employer's blessing. These and other measures are considered necessary to trim labor's "monopoly." This line of argument overlooks the fact that while organized labor trebled its ranks under the protection of the Wagner and Norris-LaGuardia acts, violence and extra-legal actions have been dropped from the arsenals of those unions that can approach the conference table with bargaining power approximately equal...