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...impulses and his earnestness, had turned out to be an interesting personality. He had often ranted like a demagogue. He had promised and threatened almost everything. Labor, while making little noise in the campaign, had taken to heart Harry Truman's promise to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act, and had delivered at the polls. Harry Truman had promised the farmers full economic support. And the farmers, reversing the tradition that they vote Republican when they are prosperous, had voted...
...National Labor Relations Board this week told U.S. labor unions some of the things they can & cannot do on a picket line. In general they cannot try to prevent those who want to work from working. The unanimous rulings were the first of their kind under the Taft-Hartley law. Some of the new rules of etiquette...
...favorite practice of pickets was still all right. Under the Taft-Hartley guarantee of free speech, pickets could still vilify strikebreakers, yell "scab" to their heart's content...
Congressman Kennedy, speaking from his experiences as a member of the Committee on Education and Labor, declared that passage of the Taft-Hartley Act was an indication of the mentality of the Republicans and of their poor leadership...
...main attacks has been on the subject of price controls, which Herter voted to abandon in 1946. Another, of course, flays the Republican's support of the Taft-Hartley Act. Still a third criticises his "reactionary" stand in regard to recent Social Security legislation. (Herter did not recommend extending benefits to 700,000 newspaper venders.) O'Brien also protests his support of the Mundt-Nixon bill, the Reed-Bulwinkle bill exempting railroads from anti-trust suits, the Case anti-strike bill, and similar "anti-labor" bills...