Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Taft-Hartley Act became the labor law of the land last week. It was something like the day Prohibition came into being. Nobody knew for sure what it might bring, but almost everybody was sure that some terrific headaches would follow. Unionists greeted the start of the new era in labor-management relations with defiance and derision; at C.I.O. and A.F.L. headquarters in Washington the morning greeting was "Happy Taft-Hartley Day." Even among the law's proponents, few were happy about...
...defiance of the Act and its boycotting of the NLRB promised little for the NLRB to do in the immediate future, unless Bob Denham forced some action. Nobody else, particularly employers, seemed to want to get tough. In fact, just the opposite was the case. In advance of Taft-Hartley Day last week, many employers helped unions to beat the law's deadline and to evade some of its provisions...
...signature to a 41-page document listing legal loopholes for C.I.O. lawyers to crawl through. Old Bill Green announced that the A.F.L. was planning a national work stoppage on Election Day in 1948, to get out the vote against the Congressmen who had voted for the Taft-Hartley bill...
...also dodged one potential political hot spot by turning down a speaking date before an expected 200,000 A.F.L. and C.I.O. members at a Chicago Labor Day celebration. Labor would expect him to blast the Taft-Hartley Act, but he could hardly do that to labor's satisfaction on a law he was now duty-bound to administer...
Signs of Peace? When he takes over his new job next fortnight, Cy Ching will have the chance to give that formula its most searching test. In labor's determined campaign to bypass or discredit the Taft-Hartley Act,* there were only faint signs of peace last week...