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...I.T.U.'s unilateral "conditions of employment" in lieu of the contracts the publishers thought they were entitled to. They knew as well as the union that by posting the "conditions" the union would keep its closed shop, and that they might be liable to prosecution under the Taft-Hartley...
This week, the printers voted 2,330 to 61 to strike-the first big test of the Taft-Hartley Act. A few hours later the strike was on. The printers promised 24-hour-a-day picket lines around the six Chicago dailies. The publishers promised they would print anyway, by photoengraving. The papers began a frantic scramble to hire typists. The Sun hired 80 and set up day and night shifts. All the papers buckled down to give Chicago its daily news, in spite of the strike...
Baldwin charged that in the past year or two "Had Enough?" forces have buttressed conservative elements and made it increasingly difficult to fight for human liberties. He decried the Taft-Hartley Law, the method of administering loyalty checks, and activities of the un-American Activities Committeee as the most depressing aspects of this trend...
Dislikes Taft-Hartley...
...about this thing." They wanted public pressure to build against Petrillo. Actually, he hadn't asked for a thing yet. Most of them, to stay in business, would have willingly continued to pay Petrillo's AFM $2,000,000 a year in record royalties-but the Taft-Hartley Act outlaws royalties paid to a union. Petrillo is leaving it up to the record companies to find some other way of paying his union off. He has another target too: the disc jockeys who coin fortunes by playing records all day long without paying royalties to either performers...