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...House machinery, which had been turning out bills like sausages, had come to a screeching pause. Its legislative teeth had ground into a major Harry Truman campaign promise: to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. On the floor, Truman Democrats were locked over the issue with a stubborn and derisive coalition of Republicans and the Southern colleagues of Edward Hebert. Labor agents and lobbyists - close to 400 of them - packed the gal lery, patrolled the corridors. So did as many lobbyists of industry...
Views on Mules. Half a dozen Democrats were on their feet. What did U.S. voters mean in the last election if they did not mean the Taft-Hartley Act should be repealed? Northern Democrats warned that 103 members who voted for the act in the spring of 1947 had been beaten at the November 1948 polls...
Short had nothing on another Missourian in the field of the corn-fed anecdote. Homespun Democrat George Christopher wanted the House to know that he had been farming since he was old enough and he was for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. Said Christopher proudly, turning Short's mule around: "I invite you all to look at another Missourian who has looked for long hours at the north end of that southbound mule...
Stiffening Changes. So the debate went. Underneath it, a far-reaching political and social battle was being fought. After eleven years of the Wagner Act, two years of the Taft-Hartley Act, Congress was trying to decide whether the U.S. should try some compromise between the two-and if there were compromises, how far they should go either way. On no other piece of legislation was Harry Truman staking so much of his political prestige. Beaten in the Senate on his civil rights program, he wanted desperately to win his labor bill...
...Truman legislation was wrapped up in the Lesinski bill, named after the House Labor Committee's tactless chairman, John Lesinski, a labor Congressman from Michigan since 1933. The Lesinski bill would 1) repeal the Taft-Hartley Act, 2) reinstate the Wagner Act with a few slightly stiffening changes. One of the changes was a wispy device for handling national emergency strikes by setting up presidential boards of inquiry and requiring a 30-day "cooling-off period...