Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshall Plan (China subordinated to Europe) ; a strong U.N. (he opposed the veto at San Francisco); the Taft-Hartley Act (except for the closed-shop, union political activity, and anti-Communist provisions); strong labor unions; tax reduction and debt retirement (any surplus split 50-50 between them); tax concessions for small business; Government controls on inventories, consumer credit, commodity speculation; a $1 billion-a-year Government housing program; rent control; FEPC; a modified U.M.T.; parity price support; admission of D.P.s...
...principles of the Taft-Hartley Act were upheld by a special three-judge court† in Washington last week. The court agreed that Congress may require unions to file membership and financial reports...
...Sure, Joe. "They asked if I had a candidate. I said, 'Yes. He's a fairminded, level-headed Yankee. He is Styles Bridges [anti-New Dealing New Hampshire Senator, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, a supporter of the Taft-Hartley Act]. They seemed pleased at the suggestion and they asked, 'Will he take it?' I said, 'He certainly will.' So I got him on the phone at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York...
...supported it. He is against Big Labor and labor monopolies; against the secondary boycott, the closed shop, industry-wide bargaining. Nevertheless, it was he who first stood up and fought Harry Truman's proposal to draft striker's into the Army. His main objective in the Taft-Hartley Act was to restore the legal balance between labor and management...
...balanced budget, debt retirement, lower taxes (in that order); Government stimulation of housing; rent control; prepaid health insurance at the state level; a permanent FEPC; the Taft-Hartley law (except for the anti-Communist and union press provisions); public power development; the U.N.; the Marshall Plan (conditioned on proof of mutual cooperation & self-help); equal attention to the problems of the Orient; Hawaiian statehood; universal military training...