Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike at this time. After all, steel production was already beginning to exceed demands. The solution he found last week was one that would probably become familiar: turn everything over to labor's good friend, the President. Harry Truman, unable to deliver on his promise to repeal Taft-Hartley, was anxious to be helpful in every...
...Corp. refinery settled down to hours of writing and rewriting lists of "grievances" against the company. It was a new sit-down technique. Explained cocky Arthur Hajecate, secretary-treasurer of the Houston local of the C.I.O.'s Oil Workers International Union: there is a loophole in the Taft-Hartley Act which permits employees to compose their gripes on company time...
...mattered not to Trainman Whitney that the new bill was milder-in 27 spots -than Taft-Hartley; Whitney wanted his boys to think that it was really worse. "If this vicious proposal should ever become law," he told his union in its weekly newspaper, "we shall be only one step from Adolf Hitler's form of government...
...strike had begun when dockers refused to unload two ships involved in a Canadian strike. The walkout on British docks persisted and spread. Prime Minister Attlee said the London stoppage was a maneuver in Communist "wrecking tactics." Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross called it "economic and political treason." The government ordered troops to load the ships...
...this went for nothing. Lucas predicted that President Truman would veto the Taft bill if it should pass the House (as was very unlikely). Then the old Taft-Hartley Act, with all the faults in it that Taft admitted to, would remain the nation's labor law. Why? Because the Administration, for obvious political reasons, didn't want it improved; it only wanted to kill it-but couldn...