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...Taft party, for instance, as you have read in TIME, encountered picket lines along its route voicing labor's antipathy to the Taft-Hartley law. The correspondents accompanying the party adopted one of the pickets' ditties (You Can't Scare Me; I'm Sticking To The Union) as their unofficial marching song. The Senator heard it so often that, in an off-the-record party in his private car, he finally joined the reporters in singing...
...Wallace represents a definite viewpoint, and this viewpoint should be considered by all who believe that free discussion and inquiry is the best way to arrive at the truth. But to say that Mr. Wallace speaks for liberals implies an acceptance of his total position. In condemning the Taft-Hartley Bill, in calling for price controls to stop inflation, in fighting against Universal Military Training, in advocating support of dynamic democratic socialism in Europe rather than mere military "containment" of Russia, Mr. Wallace finds widespread liberal support. On the other hand, when he describes American foreign policy as imperialistically motivated...
...enough for labor to use the Taft-Hartley vote and other domestic issues as criteria for measuring candidates. Labor cannot safely ignore the relationship of foreign and domestic policy. The men and women and children who are dying in Indonesia or Palestine or Greece are workers and farmers, too. Labor here at home must act or we shall feel the terror common men and women have already felt in so much of the world...
...counting his chickens too soon. Four afternoons later, newsmen listened to an angry roar that boomed now & then through the closed doors of Parlor D. John L. Lewis, it seemed, was damned if he'd sign any such affidavit. Any members who would knuckle down to the Taft-Hartley Act, he cried, were "cowards and weaklings...
Green was glum as he told newsmen of the decision. Said he: "The Taft-Hartley law is reprehensible and vicious and destructive to the legal and civil rights of workers. . . . [The council] could not conform to the Denham ruling...