Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Supreme Court closed its term this week, it refused (over the protests of four Justices) to rule on the constitutionality of one hotly argued provision of the Taft-Hartley law. The law, said Justice Stanley Reed, did not specifically prohibit political opinions in union newspapers. Then the court, in a unanimous decision, threw out an indictment against the C.I.O., which campaigned successfully in its News for a Democratic candidate in a Baltimore election last summer. Still unanswered by the court was the larger question: Can unions legally contribute funds directly to a political campaign...
...management. Few expect the spiritual influence of Pendle Hill to be immediate or sensational; they are content to make a beginning. Nor are all Friends agreed as to how tl beginning should be made. At one conference, union representatives put up loudspeakers through which they berated the Taft-Hartley Act. The harangues came through clearly in the handsome Quaker homes that border the Pendle Hill property, causing these quiet neighbors to express definite anxiety at such stridency...
Although Lewis was not in court, Judge Goldsborough let John know what he thought of him. "There is no such thing as a benevolent despot," he said. "It's your boundless audacity, O Catiline."* Then he ordered Lewis, under the Taft-Hartley law, to bargain with all the coal operators before the June 30 contract deadline...
Thirteen states prohibit the union shop.* But the Taft-Hartley law does not bar it, if a majority of employees vote for it. Thus union leaders, in cases involving interstate commerce, have been able to use the federal labor law as a safe refuge from more stringent state laws...
Last week, the National Labor Relations Board closed the Taft-Hartley door with a bang. In a 3-2 decision it ruled that jt will no longer hold union shop elections in states which outlaw it. Such NLRB elections, the majority decided, "would lead only to the circumvention and frustration of State law." For labor leaders who rely on the union shop device to control and hold their memberships, it was a hard blow...