Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After intervention by the new Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, set up under the Taft-Hartley Act, the strike was called off-for sixty days at least...
Last week, James Petrillo pointed his stubby finger at a point they had apparently overlooked. The Taft-Hartley law prevented record companies from signing a new contract which would pay royalties to a union-administered fund-but the record companies had obligingly recorded a year's supply under the old contract. All those phonograph records to be doled out over the bleak months ahead, he thought, would net his union around...
...unrepentant of having formed the secessionist C.I.O., he had returned to A.F.L. 22 months ago in the hope of twirling its leaders around his little finger. The formal reason for his curt note of divorce was his split with A.FL.'s officers over methods of combating the Taft-Hartley...
Both management and labor knew that the issue had to be joined eventually. Sooner or later the National Labor Relations Board would have to make one of its biggest decisions since the Taft-Hartley Act became law last summer. Last week, plainly following the letter of the law, NLRB did. It ruled that an employer has no legal obligation to deal with a union whose leaders have refused to sign affidavits that they are not Communists...
...papers got some help from commercial print shops, where I.T.U. members - fearing to violate the Taft-Hartley Act by a secondary boycott - set ads for the newspapers. Other unions avoided sympathy moves that might violate the law. By week's end, the dailies were printing newspapers of about their usual size; the Tribune ran 116 pages Sunday, the Sun a 152-page tabloid with 96 pages of news...