Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regular only when it suited him). The old New Dealers might have been expected to applaud a President who had plumped hard for price controls, civil rights, and a big housing program. Labor might have been expected to rally around the man who had vetoed the hated Taft-Hartley law, had thrice vetoed what he called a rich man's tax bill...
...Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, trying to hoist up the last piece of lumber before all the fears and feuds of the party were exposed. They listened to pleas and threats. Sometimes they argued. Labor's William Green demanded a plank for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, for which most Southern Democrats had voted in Congress. Harold Ickes demanded federal control of tidewater oil lands, which outraged such states' rights defenders as Texas' ex-Governor Dan Moody...
Vague Remedy. The labor section, in deference to the C.I.O and A.F.L., demanded outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. This put conservative Democrats on the spot. But only vague remedial legislation to reduce labor-management conflicts was suggested. On the question of tidewater oil rights: silence...
...others also refused to answer what Congressman Fred Hartley, co-author of the Taft-Hartley law, called "the $64 question." Chairman Kersten said that all nine would be cited for contempt of Congress, punishable by a maximum of one year in jail and a $1,000 fine. Readmitted to the courtroom, Witness Osman shouted that the committee's action reflected "the corrupt, degenerate mentality of men who have made the House of Representatives a house of ill repute...
Judge Goldsborough rejected any argument that the Norris-La Guardia anti-injunction law made the order illegal. Although the railway brotherhoods are exempt from the Taft-Hartley Act, Judge Goldsborough applied the philosophy of that act, which permits injunctions...