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...Wagner Act, which was vital in 1935 to guarantee the right of labor to organize, has certainly become an unbalanced law with the growth of union strength; and the Taft-Hartley Law, passed in an aura of bitterness in 1947, has been unsuccessful in its attempt to cover a multitude of labor-management problems by federal legislation. But the closed shop is a basic labor right, and must be guaranteed by federal statute; equally important is protection against stoppages in industries vital to the national welfare. On other items, a single federal law would be too broad to cover...
...anti-closed shop provisions of the Taft-Hartley Law have brought the most concerted protests from all levels of labor. Where the Wagner Act put curbs on management, the 1947 law clamped down on labor alone in this most prized of its privileges. Neither statute deals adequately with the closed shop in its present full-grown state. It is a peculiarity of American labor organization which must rather be protected from union abuses than forbidden by law. If unions are to maintain closed shop, they must preserve open membership as regards race, initiation fees, and dues. But the fact remains...
These two problems must rank highest on the Congressional agenda; but there are several others which have been thrown into chaos by the Taft-Hartley Law. The ban on jurisdictional strikes is justified if only on the grounds that nobody gets anything out of them, and that annual plant elections, while not eliminating these strikes, can at least cut them down. But the prohibition of secondary boycotts is a more complex matter: some of these are justified by the necessity for cohesion in the labor movement, while some wreak unfair harm on an employer who may have nothing...
With plenty of good humor, but with knees high and elbows out, Senator Robert Taft waded into the labor-law fight. The unions had made repeal of his Taft-Hartley Act a personal and political fight. Harry Truman had promised to kill it. In a Senate committee hearing room (the arena where he is most effective) Taft fought back...
...first target was Secretary of Labor Tobin, lean, broad-shouldered Boston politician and onetime Massachusetts governor, whose frame and fitness gives him the look of a retired first-baseman. Tobin had been sent up to Capitol Hill to defend the Administration's slightly blurred substitute for the Taft-Hartley Act (TIME, Feb. 7). One of its foggiest points was whether the President would have the right to an injunction to stop strikes which imperiled the national welfare-a right clearly stated in the Taft-Hartley Act. Attorney General Tom Clark sent along his opinion that such a right...