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...action until May 10. Then Senator Taft attacked the most vulnerable of the proposals, No. 12, which would have abolished the office of General Counsel in the National Labor Relations Board. The Hoover Commission never made this specific recommendation and, since the Office was established by the Taft-Hartley Act, both the Republican and Southern Democrat supporters of that bill opposed such an action. The Citizens Committee for the Hoover Reports--a non-partisan group behind the reform measures--did not favor the plan either. And debate on the bill took place while Majority Leader Lucas was desperately trying...
...Hoover Commission, but dear to the heart of Mr. Truman, would abolish the office of general counsel of the NLRB, whose present occupant, Robert N. Denham, annoys the President and union labor. Taft argued that the plan was just a devious trick partly to nullify the Taft-Hartley Act. The Senate went along with Taft, killed the President's measure by a 53-to-30 vote. It was another flat rebuff for the White House...
Writing the majority opinion upholding the Taft-Hartley clause which requires labor leaders to sign non-Communist oaths, Chief Justice Vinson declared in effect that mere Communist membership can be construed as a threat to the U.S. and thus dealt with. "Force may and must be met with force. [The oath] is designed to protect the public not against what Communists and others identified therein advocate or believe, but against what Congress has concluded they have done and are likely to do again...
This week the Supreme Court upheld the Taft-Hartley provision requiring non-Communist oaths from labor leaders-a clause that was once labor's bitterest pill, and has since proved almost as easy to take as an aspirin. The justices had a hard time making up their collective mind: Chief Justice Vinson's majority opinion was shared by Justices Burton and Reed; Justice Frankfurter was on their side, but for his own rendered reasons; Justice Black flatly dissented; and Justice Jackson was somewhere in the middle, partly agreeing, partly dissenting. Three others (Justices Douglas, Clark and Minton) stayed...
...protege. When Major Smathers came home from the Pacific war where he had served as a ground officer with a Marine bomber squadron, Pepper had helped send him to Congress in 1946. Running against Pepper, Congressman Smathers had changed his old Fair Deal tune: he was for the Taft-Hartley Act, for economy in Government, against socialized medicine. Smathers had plenty of conservative money behind him. He went up & down the state reminding voters of Pepper's old Red and pink friends. It was a hot, clear fight-with plenty of low blows from both sides...