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...Sparkman succeeded to the Senate seat of the late John Bankhead.-Here his gift for compromise came into sharp relief when he voted to pass the Taft-Hartley Act and later voted to sustain Harry Truman's veto of the bill...
...symbol of their alliance was the Taft-Hartley Act, the Republican revision of the Wagner Act. Truman and labor agreed that Taft-Hartley was a slave labor act and (as the Democratic Party platform put it last week) operated "in an arbitrary manner...
Prepared Position. Faced with a steel strike on New Year's Day, Harry Truman telephoned Phil Murray in Pittsburgh just before Christmas, and asked Murray to hold off. Submit the dispute to the Wage Stabilization Board, said the President, or the Government will step in with a Taft-Hartley injunction against you. After pondering briefly, Murray accepted the WSB, which was, after all, like falling back to a prepared position...
Because Murray had voluntarily postponed the strike, Truman felt himself bound not to invoke the Taft-Hartley law. The argument gained some logic when Murray postponed the strike 80 days while waiting for the WSB decision-an interval which balanced Taft-Hartley's 80-day cooling-off period. (Legally, the argument had no validity at all, as the Supreme Court later pointed out.) But the logic was soon swallowed up in the strange and wonderful performance...
...Massillon, Fairless' brother, John Williams, last week agreed with Ben that the President should have invoked the Taft-Hartley Act to end the strike. The brothers' differences in surname occurred when Ben, at the age of five, was adopted by an uncle named Fairless (TIME...