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...Truman's list of objectives is broad; it fully represents the kind of government that the country's voters have approved in every major election since 1932. Truman wants $4 billion more in taxes (principally from corporations); he wants the Taft-Hartley Law repealed, and a revised Wagner Act put in its place. He asked again for limited economic controls; proposals that have been futilely batted around in Congress for well over a year. And the President wants plenty of legislation in other domestic fields--Social Security, conservation and resource development, health, education, civil rights, and housing...
...dead include: Ralph B. Laird, 22, Camas, Wash.; James Leonard Bryan, Portland, Ore.; Noel L. Brown, 18, Seattle; Roger W. Young, 19, Seattle; Leonard B. Wickman, Bellevue, Wash.; David B. Haerle, Portland, Ore.; Asbjorn Reese, Seattle; Harry C. Franzheim 3rd, North Seattle; Russell H. Palmer, 27, Vancouver, Wash.; Wallace Hartley, Mercer Island, Wash.; Don Lee Garrett, Portland...
...between 1% and 2½% a record into the musicians' welfare fund, about the same as before. Estimated royalties: $2,000,000 a year. The peace pact was tentatively drawn two months ago. It was held up to make sure that it did not violate the Taft-Hartley Act, which bans the paying of royalties into union-controlled welfare funds. The solution, approved by Attorney General Tom Clark: an independent fund with a nonunion administrator...
...contract they negotiated was for an unprecedented three years. It gave longshoremen a 15? boost to $1.82 an hour straight time, $2.73 an hour overtime. It provided better grievance machinery and continued the hiring halls until the courts decided whether they were legal under the Taft-Hartley law. After Congress rewrites the law, the hiring halls will probably be legal anyhow...
...lost it. To Connecticut's Senator Raymond Baldwin, the reasons for the loss were clear as early as 1947. The independent voters, he pointed out then, had wanted mild labor legislation, housing, something done about high prices, protection through rent controls. The 80th Congress gave them the Taft-Hartley law, no housing, no action on prices, and raised rents...