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...friendly reporters on hand to bring up the right subjects and comely "Belles for Bob" to introduce well-rehearsed members of the audience. Eisenhower, said Taft, was coming around nicely to the Taft views on domestic policy, although he really didn't seem to understand the Taft-Hartley law. Asked about Ike's request for farm editors' help to learn about farm policy, Taft chuckled: "I've been educated for some 15 years on farm policy." Later, he took a swat at the farm editors. "My own opinion of the editors isn't that high...
...Harry." At that point, Harry Truman, who had seized the industry earlier only to have the Supreme Court rule that he had no power to do so, stepped into the picture again. He rode up to Capitol Hill, asked Congress for seizure power. An injunction under the Taft-Hartley law, said Truman, would be unfair to the workers. After they had already worked more than 150 days without a contract, it would force them to work 80 days more without a raise. In Pittsburgh, Steelworker Tom Zema glowed: "Good old Harry. He talks like he's a Steelworker...
Congress gave Truman less applause than any President in recent years has received for a speech on Capitol Hill. (Bob Taft laughed derisively during the address.) The Senate promptly turned down three seizure proposals, then requested the President to use the Taft-Hartley law. Truman in his speech had made it clear that he was against the law, and would use it only if Congress urged him to, i.e., if it freed him of political responsibility for invoking it in this election year. Phil Murray was violently against it too. Like Harry Truman, he didn't want...
...contrary, when the Court looked back through the record it found that Congress had, in fact, rejected an amendment to the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 which would have authorized Government seizures in event of emergency. "The use of the seizure technique to solve labor disputes . . . was not only unauthorized by any congressional enactment; [but] Congress had refused to adopt that method of settling labor disputes...
Bind the Man Down. At a nod from Vinson, John Davis strode forward to build his case against Harry Truman. Had the President seized the steel plants under authority of any statute? He had not. He had, in fact, declined to use the Taft-Hartley Act, Congress's remedy for heading off important labor-management disputes. "Having that weapon at hand, any effort on his part to forge a new and different weapon only aggravates the claim of usurpation which we are compelled to make. There was no statutory framework for this seizure. What then...