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...efforts at collective bargaining, shall both thrive in a free economy. It was to correct a management-weighted imbalance that the Wagner Labor Relations act (John McClellan voted for it) was passed in 1935. But that, in turn, created an equally oppressive, labor-weighted imbalance that even the Taft-Hartley law (McClellan voted for it, too) failed to remedy. Unchecked by restraining laws, some labor leaders became racketeers and some racketeers became labor leaders, using their vast economic powers against management, unionism, and society itself...
...LABOR RULING by Supreme Court says that unions can be charged with unfair labor practices against their own employees, are subject to Taft-Hartley rules like any employer. By 5-4 vote, court overturned earlier NLRB decision, ordered board to hear charges that Teamsters attempted to force out some of their office help because they joined A.F.L.-C.I.O. Office Employes union...
...already requested three times) that would require union pension- and welfare-fund statements to be filed with the Justice Department and made public; 2) a move to seek congressional authorization for the Labor Department to make public the 38,000 union financial statements filed each year under a Taft-Hartley provision. Predicted Mitchell: "The labor movement will emerge from this period of trial stronger and cleaner and more responsive to the welfare of its members than ever before...
...been required in contempt cases to which the U.S. Government was a party. The exception: the Norris-La Guardia Act of 1932 required jury trials in contempt proceedings arising from labor disputes. The provision was in effect repealed (with the enthusiastic approval of most Southern Congressmen) by the Taft-Hartley...
...TAFT-HARTLEY amendments this year stand good chance of passage. Reason: Labor Secretary Mitchell is bringing together union and management leaders from separate industries, having them suggest amendments to which both groups agree. First such conference brought agreement to amend passages covering construction industry's representative elections, apprenticeship and multiemployer bargaining...