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Labor. Minimum wage of 75? an hour (now 40?); restoration to the Labor Department of all the authority taken away from it by the 80th Congress; repeal of the Taft-Hartley law and a return to the more pro-labor pattern of the Wagner Act; government action to maintain "full employment" with a goal of 64 million employed by 1958; more generous unemployment compensation...
Supreme Court Justice Harold H. Burton presided at the session, which consisted of oral argument of a case testing the right of a Federal Court to enjoin a district attorney from prosecuting under the Taft-Hartley Act a union which bought newspaper space and radio time to endorse a candidate for federal office. The two clubs had previously submitted briefs on the same issue...
...tonight's debate, the Gardner Club will act as counsel for the defendant in the case of Local No. 861 v. John B. Dumont, a test case involving the constitutionality of a provision in the Taft-Hartley Act barring Union expenditures for political purposes...
...voters believed that there would be any contest on Election Day ... When [Harry Truman] damned the 80th Congress and the Taft-Hartley law, nobody seemed really to care or to listen" (TIME...
...Bark. There was no doubt that the stock market, which had been as certain as everyone else of a G.O.P. victory, was panicked by all the Democratic talk of stand-by price controls, an excess-profits tax, repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, and demands for wage boosts from tough, confident unions backed by a labor-minded Administration (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But calmer businessmen recalled that it was a Democratic Congress which had let OPA die, that President Truman had approved the repeal of the wartime excess-profits tax in 1945, and that wage boosts were bound to come anyway...