Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign opened in earnest this week, Harry Truman left no doubts that he was going to campaign as the champion of labor. Six days before Labor Day, he fired off a message calling for repeal of the Taft-Hartley law, extension of social security and health insurance, an increased minimum wage (from 40? to 75?). Then he climbed aboard his newly refurbished railroad car, the Ferdinand Magellan, to carry his message to a joint A.F.L. and C.I.O. rally in Detroit, to four other Michigan cities, and Toledo...
Three weeks ago the National Labor Relations Board ruled that the union-run hiring hall, as operated by most of the big maritime unions, is in effect a closed shop and thus illegal under the Taft-Hartley Act. Nobody in the shipping industry cheered the decision; few wanted...
Last week wily, wiry Harry Bridges called a West Coast shipping strike and invited a showdown over the Taft-Hartley Act and the hiring hall. It was his seventh major tieup of the. Pacific waterfronts in a dozen years. Like most of the others it promised to be long, costly and bitterly fought...
...Concession to the Dead. Bridges had been itching for the showdown since last spring. He was restrained for 80 days by an injunction obtained under the Taft-Hartley Act. When the injunction ran out last week, shippers offered Bridges a carbon copy of the agreement which had been accepted by East Coast, Gulf and Great Lakes unions: let the hiring halls operate as before, until the courts rule on their legality...
...better campaigner than either Stewart or Mitchell, Kefauver won large audiences all over the state. Labor supported him for his vote against the Taft-Hartley bill; business and professional men liked his courageous stand against Crump. When the votes were in, Kefauver topped Tom Stewart by 34,000 votes; Crumpet John Mitchell ran a dismal third. Shelby County, which used to roll up 60,000 votes for a Crump candidate, gave him only...