Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Where Will We Wind Up? On the House side, Republicans were still trying groggily to get on their feet. They heard that Speaker Sam Rayburn, more confident than a lot of others, hoped to have a bill repealing the Taft-Hartley act on the floor by March 1, and would try to give Harry Truman just about everything else he wanted-with the possible exception of the whole $4 billion in new taxes. With tears actually running down his face, one angry and frustrated G.O.P. leader said: "I can't imagine what Sam Rayburn and John McCormack [majority leader...
Other Truman remedies for shortcomings were: a prepaid medical-insurance program; federal aid to schools; the Truman civil-rights program. He also asked for universal military training, broadening of social security, extension of reciprocal trade treaties for three years. He wanted repeal of the Taft-Hartley law and re-enactment of the Wagner Act with some "improvements" such as a ban on jurisdictional strikes. Then he called for new taxes to raise $4 billion in additional revenues and five days later sent along a 1,400-page budget to explain it. He no longer advocated, as he had last year...
...leader of the rump caucus was New York's homespun, able Irving Ives. As a freshman Senator two years ago, he made a, successful fight against some of the more rigorous measures which Taft had tried to write into the Taft-Hartley Act.† Said Ives: "Rightly or wrongly, the consensus of opinion of many Republicans is that the party under Bob is not going forward. We are in a state of suspended animation...
Most industrialists took one look at soaring sales and decided it was smarter to raise wages-and then prices-than to risk strikes. (Man days lost from strikes dropped to 34 million, lowest in three years.) On its part, labor had developed a healthy respect for the hated Taft-Hartley Act, and in most cases it spoke softly...