Word: hartleys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After supporting much of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, Russell broke sharply with the Truman Administration, supported the Taft-Hartley law, opposed the Brannan farm plan. On civil rights, he has followed the Southern line without deviation, defending segregation, the filibuster and the poll tax, opposing FEPC. Arguing that "interfering" Northerners don't understand the problem, he once proposed that the South trade 1,500,000 Negroes for an equal number of Northern whites to "equalize" the racial problem. "My idea is that a good deal of civil-rights legislation should be called 'civil-wrongs' legislation...
Lewis: Since suits are in conformity with the principal motive behind the Taft-Hartley Act, which is a statute intended to permit persistent harassment of labor unions by these constant suits...
Lewis: If you are ever elected President and Joe Stalin asks you about the Taft-Hartley slave act, I don't know how you are going to explain...
...explosion at West Frankfort (Ill.), where 119 men lost their lives,† The shaggy eyebrows quivered with scorn, the spellbinding voice rolled out pedantic invective (a certain mine operator, he rumbled, was "retromingent"), as the U.M.W.'s president got to his main point: "the abominable and barbaric Taft-Hartley Law." Until Congress repealed it, said Lewis, the U.M.W. would be hampered in its efforts to make the mines safe. He complained that operators, under "Bob Taft's slave statute," could sue the union if union members struck against dangerous mine conditions while a contract was in force...
...collar around the necks of millions of Americans.") But the Senator popped up next day, just back from electioneering in Florida, to tangle with the waiting Lewis. Taft said that he was all for a federal mine safety law, but mine safety had nothing to do with the Taft-Hartley Act: "Mr. Lewis' statement is entirely irrelevant . . . entirely untrue ... a complete red herring...