Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just this year's bills," said one. "Landrum will be hitting us in the head for the next 20 years." The insurgents got support from labor, which has the authors of the Landrum-Griffin Act on the same blacklist as the authors of the Taft-Hartley...
This time the charge was that Hoffa and another Teamster official had violated the Taft-Hartley Law by making $1,008,057 out of a trucking company with which the Teamsters did business. If Hoffa was worried about whether the rap would stick, he certainly managed to conceal his anxiety. During the long wait for the jury, he strutted around the corridors and delivered himself of some cocky, colorful opinions. "These FBI agents," harangued Hoffa, "are all stool pigeons. A bunch of rats and stool pigeons. Give one of them a local with 10,000 members...
This, the Government charged, actually amounted to a conspiracy between Commercial Carriers and Hoffa to violate a provision of the Taft-Hartley Act that bars employee representatives from receiving payments from employers except for wages and other specifically defined purposes...
Topicality becomes a problem for both directors, since each play was written with a timely, instructive purpose. Does Rosaldo really think Odets' desperate whining retains its topicality in these days of labor-management picnics and Taft-Hartley happiness? Does Fox think the strategic lessons which Brecht wants to impart in The Measures Taken are lessons which the Common Room audience could or should take seriously? If the answer in either case is yes, the directors failed on stage to explain why. Without that explanation their two weeks' toil seemed flat and offensive, or cute and inapplicable. Fox didn't sense...
...week's end, the Administration still planned to press for an injunction, despite its unhappy recognition that the move would undercut the union's bargaining position. The Taft-Hartley Act provides that unless a contract is signed within the first 60 days of the cooling-off period, the workers must then vote on the company's last offer. Lockheed's last offer was to give its workers an average wage increase of 21? an hour between now and 1964-but no union shop. And the betting was that if this were put to a vote among...