Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...author of the Taft-Hartley Bill will sandwich the dining date between a talk to the National Association of Attorney Generals this morning and a speech tonight at the Boston City Club on the cost of living in relation with the President's call for a special congressional session...
...recent months things have not been going so smoothly. The Taft-Hartley Act, in a section aimed directly at Petrillo, banned payment of record royalties to a union. The Lea Act, enacted to prevent Petrillo's "coercing" of broadcasting studios (forcing them, among other things, to hire stand-by musicians), had passed its first test in the Supreme Court. Last week in Chicago, a charge of violating the act was filed against Caesar; if convicted, he could be sent to jail for a year...
...judged unconstitutional by an Hlinois District Court in 1946 on the grounds of being indefinite, discriminatory, and a violation of the thirteenth amendment forbidding involuntary servitude. Petrillo might possibly be stopped in the courts either by an appeal from this decision, by an application of the Taft-Hartley secondary or unfair labor practices provisions, or on the basis of some new law not yet on the statues; but proceedings will, in all probability, never get that far. The fifth column activity of those unwilling to let foreign and non-union recording musicians make hay in fields that used...
Died. Joseph Arthur Padway, 56, general counsel of the A.F.L.; of a cerebral hemorrhage, after he collapsed while orating against the Taft-Hartley Act at the annual A.F.L. convention; in San Francisco...
...apart. CIO's president calls for a meeting "to formulate an immediate joint program" and the AFL hierarchy declines in a huff. But under the surface of intra-labor jockeying the plain fact persists that both CIO and AFL have common political aims in the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act and the defeat of its Congressional supporters...