Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newsmen had expected that he might use the occasion to discuss possible changes in the Taft-Hartley law. But with victory in the air, why should he make any more promises? "Labor has its special problems," said Dewey. "But these problems have not been solved . . . by separating labor from the rest of America." He reminded labor that Republicans had voted for the Wagner Act, voted against Harry Truman's plan to draft the railroad strikers, that both parties had supported the Taft-Hartley...
...made a few specific promises: an increased minimum wage, broadened and increased social-security benefits, a strengthened Department of Labor, vigorous antitrust enforcement, action to "break the log jam in housing" and to halt "soaring prices." But he left labor still wondering what Taft-Hartley changes, if any, he would propose. Said Dewey: "The new law is not perfect. No law, or any other human handiwork is perfect. It can always be improved and wherever and whenever it needs change it will be changed...
Saltonstall will campaign on his four-year Senate record, which followed that of most internationalist Republicans in the Senate. He voted against last December's bill to authorize Presidential price controls; and against slum clearance and public housing provisions of the housing bill. He voted for the Taft Hartley law and to override the President's vote of the tax reduction bill. He supported an amendment to the rent control bill which authorized a voluntary 15 per cent increase...
WYOMING. The edge last week lay with Democratic Governor Lester Hunt. A friendly, fast-traveling campaigner, he was winning friends among the coal miners and oil workers by plumping for repeal of the Taft-Hartley law, winning friends among the sheepmen and cattlemen by promising more reclamation projects. It was the toughest kind of competition for dignified, stiff-necked Senator Edward Robertson, who had never starred at the backslapping, baby-kissing game...
...regular job of covering the capital for 31 papers in Texas, Michigan and New Jersey. The Duchess, as she likes to be called, dashed up to Manhattan, her pincenez dangling wildly at her bosom, for a television gabfest with her good friend Mary Margaret McBride, and Congressman Fred Hartley. Said Tufty later: "Mary Margaret was a little out of her depth with Fred, so I just took over and interviewed him myself...