Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hartley Case (Contd...
...living have somewhat soured Britain's taste for the televised fol-de-rol of subversive hunting, for her recently completed Civil Service investigation seems, in retrospect, to have lacked the drama of its American counterpart. The sober temper of these investigations was reflected in an unemotional speech by Sir Hartley Shawcross, the Attorney General of the Labor Party between 1945 and 1951, at Columbia's Bicentennial celebration. The long speech, almost entirely ignored by the American press, summed up the methods and results of Britain's policy towards subversives since World...
Many unionists privately concede that Taft-Hartley is far from oppressive or anti-union despite its concessions to employers. It bans the closed shop and jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts (i.e., strikes against one employer to win concessions from another), and gives employers the right to argue against unionism with their employees. But it also bans company unions, specifically allows the union shop, permits labor (as well as management) to sue for damages if a contract is broken...
Some Taft-Hartley provisions, designed to modify the Wagner Act, have little effect because they are unenforceable or simply ignored. Hence, some of the proposed changes would simply bring the law in line with reality. The closed-shop ban, for example, has been ignored, notably in the construction, maritime and amusement trades where the unions have the labor market sewed up. The Administration wants to permit a virtual closed shop in these industries. When a firm handles work for a struck company, the union obviously has a grievance-and in such cases Eisenhower would legalize secondary boycotts...
...reason that Taft-Hartley has not stirred up more rank & file protest is that prosperity has been high and unemployment low since the act was passed in 1947. It has remained unamended because it was originally passed by overwhelming bipartisan majorities, and, until recently, liberally interpreted by a Democrat-controlled NLRB. Furthermore, labor leaders wanted outright repeal. Though the labor leaders have since changed their tune, the Taft-Hartley fight remains a battle of the professionals. And like old pros who have been through all this before, they may well let the battle die-and Congress will feel no need...