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Riesel, arguing in defense of the Taft-Hartley Act, said that any organization which spends over 50 million dollars a year must stop thinking of itself as oppressed...
Tyler, tracing the history of the labor movement in politics, said that only in the last seven years have the unions become a real force on the nation's political scene. "Robert Taft persuaded labor to real action. With the Taft-Hartley Act, labor felt it had to protect itself...
...Hartley Case (Contd...
...question, "Should the Hartley boys have been allowed to live?", was best answered by the mother, Mrs. Cecil Hartley, when she told reporters, "I love my boys...
...lectured on economics at Rutgers. That answer would have sufficed, but Beeson rambled on: "I was frankly there to try to explain the American enterprise system from the businessman's viewpoint." Asked the C.I.O.'s James Carey, a later witness: Would not Beeson also administer the Taft-Hartley law from a "businessman's viewpoint?" Despite strong opposition from labor leaders (truculent John L. Lewis called him "Union-Buster Beeson"), the committee approved Beeson's nomination by a 7 (all Republicans) to 6 (all Democrats) vote...