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EVERY day," said bombastic John L. Lewis, "I have a matutinal indisposition that emanates from the nauseous effluvia of that oppressive slave statute." Lewis was, of course, referring to the Taft-Hartley Act, which other labor leaders have more simply branded a union-wrecker. Just as the Wagner Act was passed at a time when business was in disrepute, so Taft-Hartley was passed as a result of the excesses of organized labor. But Co-Author Bob Taft thought the act far from perfect, later suggested more than a dozen amendments. Last year congressional committees took 7,000 pages...
...reason that other attempts to change Taft-Hartley have made little progress is that the battle, as Labor Secretary James Mitchell says, is between "professionals on both sides." For management, the leading professionals are members of the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. For labor, the leader is John Lewis, who pulled his mine workers out of the A.F.L. (for the second time) after it declined to boycott the act. It was also Lewis who was most hurt by the act when the U.M.W. was fined $1.4 million for refusing to obey a no-strike injunction...
Other big unions apparently have not been hurt by Taft-Hartley. But it probably has hit some weak unions. Under Taft-Hartley, workers striking for economic reasons -may not vote in plant elections. Hence, an employer can hire non-union workers, hold an election and exclude the striking workers. Dwight Eisenhower views this as a "union busting" license, and wants to prohibit such votes until the strike is at least four months old. Even so, there is little solid evidence of Taft-Hartley's overall effects, good...
Many unionists privately concede that Taft-Hartley is far from oppressive or anti-union despite its concessions to employers. It bans the closed shop and jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts (i.e., strikes against one employer to win concessions from another), and gives employers the right to argue against unionism with their employees. But it also bans company unions, specifically allows the union shop, permits labor (as well as management) to sue for damages if a contract is broken...
...Rose, Ham Foster, and Landon Thomas won three matches for Harvard, 3-1. 3-2, and 3-1, but Robert Hartley and Al Stone lost their matches 3-` and 3-0, to give the Boat Club their two scores...