Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delayed, in the Senate Labor Committee, any action on changes in the Taft-Hartley law until the Administration makes known its position on federal-state relationships in labor legislation...
Tyler, tracing the history of the labor movement in politics, said that only in the last seven years have the unions become a real force on the nation's political scene. "Robert Taft persuaded labor to real action. With the Taft-Hartley Act, labor felt it had to protect itself...
...Taft-Hartley "Bombshell...
When questioned by moderator Louis L. Jaffe, professor of Law, as to labor's failure to arouse workers against the Taft-Hartley Act, Tyler replied that labor had yet to feel the dull impact of the 1947 law. "Taft-Hartley," he explained, "is sort of a time bomb which will only go off in an atmosphere of unemployment...
Segal, elaborating on the effect of the Taft-Hartley Act on labor, said that the act dramatized the need for the unions to defend collective bargaining through political means...