Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legislative recommendations, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. gave top priority to the repeal of Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley law. The clause gives states the right to enact right-to-work laws, banning union shop contracts. Big Labor has been fighting it since 1947, when Taft-Hartley was enacted. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. figures that next year it will have at least 225 votes for the repeal of 14(b), provided of course that the Johnson Administration does not interfere. That seems unlikely,, especially since Lyndon Johnson ordered a repeal proposal included in the Democratic Party platform...
...against Birch, Barry and Bob," Young would say. "Goldwaterism, Taft Juniorism and extremism are all the same commodity." There was one other major factor: organized labor's thirst for revenge against the son of the man who co-sponsored the Taft-Hartley...
...fact, a lot is happening. Some 260,000 General Motors workers are on strike. A national dockworkers' strike has been postponed because President Johnson invoked the Taft-Hartley Act. Inland Steel Corp. Chairman Joe Block, the man who broke away from other steelmakers to support John Kennedy during the steel hassle in 1962, was making noises about a price hike (see U.S. BUSINESS). In South Viet Nam, the political and military situation was such that by November there might not be any pieces left for the U.S. to pick up. Secretary of State Dean Rusk last week predicted that...
...oaths for union leaders under the Taft-Hartley Act, Black tartly informed his colleagues that "the First Amendment forbids compromise." When the Court upheld the 1951 conviction of Communist leaders for teaching and advocating violent overthrow of the Government-thereby upholding the Smith Act, heir to World War I's Sedition Act-Black protested that the decision "waters down the First Amendment so that it amounts to little more than an admonition to Congress." He was trying to save principles, not Communists...
...union answered by calling a strike that tied up ports from Maine to Texas, stalling tons of cargo and forcing travelers to carry their own bags. On a request from President Johnson, a federal court ordered the longshoremen back to work after one day. Thanks to the Taft-Hartley Act, the strike will probably be postponed for a "cooling-off" period of 80 days. That means the U.S. can look forward to another shipping showdown during Christmas week...