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...Slave Law." As the convention began all this wealth, power and ballyhoo was committed to relentless war on the Taft-Hartley...
...average citizen, labor's fury and consternation over the Taft-Hartley Act was a cause for mild astonishment. It had long seemed inevitable that the Wagner Act would be replaced by a more conservative measure. Labor excesses and labor's stupidity-its irresponsible use of strikes, its scorn of public opinion, its tolerance of gangsters in its ranks-had hastened the advent of such...
...more and of never making a retreat except under the pressure of a greater counterforce, could not and did not take such a view. Even the pinkest of labor leaders would admit, privately, that as long as the U.S. has prosperity-uneasy as it might be-the Taft-Hartley Law would work few hardships on labor. But for tactical reasons, and because it feared that the combination of the law and a depression might do them mortal harm, both the left and the right of organized labor stood solidly against...
Explosive Issue. But if Bill Green could forget Lewis in his home town, neither he nor other A.F.L. leaders would forget him in San Francisco this week. As the convention opened, Lewis was still steadfastly refusing to sign the non-Communist affidavit required by the Taft-Hartley...
...explosive issue. Under a ruling by Robert Denham, general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, no union of either the A.F.L. or the C.I.O. could use the NLRB unless all of its top officers signed affidavits. Lewis explained his refusal boldly: the way to beat the Taft-Hartley Act was to ignore it completely, even to boycotting the NLRB. Other hot-eyed labor leaders had a different interpretation-Lewis, whose miners seldom used the board, was attempting to use the Taft-Hartley Act as an instrument to dominate all of labor...