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...Congressman Fred Hartley Jr., coauthor of the Taft-Hartley Act: "Mr. Dewey started acting like the President of the United States too soon...
...facts which had been almost completely overlooked before the election now stood out like very sore thumbs: 1) labor voted in droves against the Taft-Hartley law and worked quietly but feverishly to sell the Democratic ticket to everyone in sight; 2) many farmers, who had been expected to vote Republican as usual, voted for Harry Truman instead. Between them they caught the Republicans in an implacable crossfire...
Angry Mutterings. Farmers had no such specific target as the Taft-Hartley law. But they had been muttering angrily ever since Congress refused to grant appropriations to the Commodity Credit Corp. last summer for more crop storage bins. Because no Government loans can be made on crops stored on the farm, they had been forced to dump their surplus on a falling market...
...such a consensus. In the present state of collective bargaining the new statute need not be thrust down the threat of labor or management. The time has passed for more "get even" laws. Management's lessons from the Wagner Act and labor's from the Taft-Hartley act have created an awareness to the rights of the other party and a greater sense of public responsibility. There are signs that the administration intends to follow the course of consulting labor and management in developing the new labor...
There will be little objection to the continuation of the financial reporting requirements of the Taft-Hartley act. The nonCommunist affidavit will not be asy to eliminate politically in view of the current international situation. Labor leaders will insist generally that the affidavit be made applicable to employers as well as union leaders. There will be little objection to the employers free speech and jurisdictional disputes provisions although significant changes in language are required...