Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impulses and his earnestness, had turned out to be an interesting personality. He had often ranted like a demagogue. He had promised and threatened almost everything. Labor, while making little noise in the campaign, had taken to heart Harry Truman's promise to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act, and had delivered at the polls. Harry Truman had promised the farmers full economic support. And the farmers, reversing the tradition that they vote Republican when they are prosperous, had voted...
Actually, both sides had been willing to get together all along, if a nice legal way could be found to do it. In the old days, record makers paid royalties directly into the union's welfare fund, which Petrillo controls. The Taft-Hartley Act stopped that: it forbade the union to have the sole say-so on the fund. Now that everyone was friendly again, neither side expected any trouble in finding a neutral trustee to handle the money, acceptable both to Uncle Sam and to Little Caesar Petrillo...
...National Labor Relations Board this week told U.S. labor unions some of the things they can & cannot do on a picket line. In general they cannot try to prevent those who want to work from working. The unanimous rulings were the first of their kind under the Taft-Hartley law. Some of the new rules of etiquette...
...favorite practice of pickets was still all right. Under the Taft-Hartley guarantee of free speech, pickets could still vilify strikebreakers, yell "scab" to their heart's content...
Congressman Kennedy, speaking from his experiences as a member of the Committee on Education and Labor, declared that passage of the Taft-Hartley Act was an indication of the mentality of the Republicans and of their poor leadership...