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While the Administration was preparing to use the Taft-Hartley Act in the coal strike (see above), Taft-Hartley machinery was already at work on two other strike fronts: at the Oak Ridge atom plant, where a labor dispute threatened the heart of U.S. war strength; in the meat-packing industry, where a walkout of packinghouse workers had halved the nation's meat supply...
...Washington, Federal Judge Ben Moore opened a chink in the Taft-Hartley Act this week. He ruled that the act's ban against labor unions spending funds for political purposes was an "unconstitutional abridgement" of civil rights, and dismissed a test case against Phil Murray (TIME, Feb. 23). Next stop: the Supreme Court...
...often talked convincingly as if that was where he wanted to find himself. But whenever he opened his mouth to deliver one of the messages prepared by Clifford, the President talked like a New Dealer. And Adviser Clifford was kept busy scribbling. He wrote the tax vetoes; the Taft-Hartley veto; the October 1947 call for a special session; the State of the Union message last January; this year's Jackson Day dinner speech and the civil-rights message. There was no real difference between what these messages said and what a generation of New Dealers had said before...
...rank isolationist in 1940, a total-war man after Pearl Harbor. He stands foursquare with Henry against the Marshall Plan. In the Senate, he voted to keep interim aid funds for Europe down to less than half the amount ultimately granted. He fought the Taft-Hartley Act, favored continued price & rent controls...
Over & over Isacson hammered home the contention that Harry Truman had ducked the Palestine issue; that his civil-rights stand was mostly talk. Isacson wanted price control resumed, rent control continued, the Taft-Hartley Act revoked and subway fares kept at a nickel. And, most pleasing to the Communists, he was dead set against the Marshall Plan...