Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elected-the political geography, physics and alchemy of the U.S. He learned what sort of a foreign policy the farmers would go for, and what sort of farm policy labor would not swallow. He learned what U.S. Steel -and the C.I.O.-would do about the Taft-Hartley law; how Negroes, housewives and soybean farmers feel about a dozen issues from FEPC to foreign trade. He learned what a great and many-voiced people-organized in its unions, corporations, Elks' clubs and political parties-wants, hopes and fears...
...speeches there is no evidence whatever that he has surrendered any principles to Taft. In the "unity statement," the two men acknowledged their "differences" on foreign policy, stated their joint belief that the main issue of the campaign was liberty v. the Fair Deal, and agreed that the Taft-Hartley law should not be repealed...
...Democratic charges against Eisenhower is that he is vague on issues. Actually, while Ike's prose is vague in style, his speeches are highly specific in content. He has never made a speech so specific as Stevenson's Labor Day speech on the Taft-Hartley Act-but Stevenson has never made another one like that, either...
Labor. For retaining and amending the Taft-Hartley Act, against repealing...
...year ago, a group of employees petitioned for an election to abrogate the union shop. Both union and management, believing the contract ironclad, contended that such an election could not be legally held. But in a 3-to-2 decision, the NLRB held that the machinery of the Taft-Hartley Act makes it possible for employees to escape from compulsory union membership whenever a majority wish...