Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Archibald Cox '34, professor of Law, will charge at tonight's Law School Forum that Senator Robert A. Taft's new proposal for amendment of the Taft-Hartley law "would make a bad situation worse...
Opposing Cox at the Forum which begins at 8 p.m. tonight at Rindge Technical High School, will be Robert N. Denham, former general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, who has stated that the Taft-Hartley law can be beneficial if appropriately administered. Denham said that he does not believe that organized labor, representing 25 percent of American workers, has any right to dictate the operation of industry...
LABOR. The Taft-Hartley law will have to be dealt with. There are signs that this issue may not be explosive. In 1949, Senator Taft agreed to 28 clarifying amendments, but labor then was fighting for outright repeal as a symbolic goal. Last week A.F.L. President George Meany, filled with what seemed to be a cooperative spirit, said he is now willing to settle for amendment rather than repeal...
...A.F.L. Plumbers & Pipe Fitters' President Martin P. Durkin as Secretary of Labor. It was "incredible," said Taft, that the President-elect should appoint a man who "has always been a partisan Truman Democrat, who fought General Eisenhower's election and advocated repeal of the Taft-Hartley...
...labor's participation in the Soviet-dominated World Federation of Trade Unions). Strongly antiCommunist, Meany became heir apparent to Green in 1947 after he balked John L. Lewis' try for a seat on the A.F.L. Executive Council by hammering at Lewis' opposition to the Taft-Hartley law provision requiring labor leaders to take a non-Communist oath. In one of the few public squelches Lewis has ever suffered, Meany charged that the mineworkers' boss had "made a fellowship" with "all the . . . stinking American-haters who love Moscow...