Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Partisan Packages. Midway in the speech, some of the brass nickels of partisanship did get mixed in with the golden vision. The prosperous millennium can be achieved, said Truman, "only if we follow the right policies"-i.e., the Fair Deal, including such disputed measures as repeal of Taft-Hartley, the Brannan plan, aid to education, and health insurance...
Even before the opening-session gavels fell, the air was rife with the shuffling and stomping of party leaders maneuvering for position. The Administration's tactics were: shoot the works, even on such issues as the Brannan Plan and Taft-Hartley repeal, which had little chance of passage, but would presumably make prime political ammunition later on. Administration leaders would plug hard to extend and increase social security, to jar the federal aid-to-education bill loose from the House Education and Labor Committee, to make Congress stand up and be counted on the compulsory health-insurance program...
Hill Called Difficulty. In such a stabilized economy, the power of labor and capital was more nearly in balance than it had been in years. The unions flopped dismally in their No. 1 political objective of wiping out the Taft-Hartley Act, even though their fears that it would cripple collective bargaining had proved false. They had almost no success in their scattered demands for fourth-round wage increases; the drop in prices made such demands untenable. But in the issue of security and pensions, they found a flaming new standard...