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When he started west last week, two carloads of reporters, photographers and radiomen left Washington, planning to meet him in Santa Cruz. They met him much sooner. The Senator told a reporter in Columbus, Ohio that he did not believe the Taft-Hartley Act would be an issue in the campaign. The newsmen in the special cars read that statement in Chicago, uttered wounded cries about being scooped, piled out, found Taft at the Union League Club and got interviews of their own. The Senator got on a fast train after that, beat the newsmen to the coast by twelve...
This calls for some pussyfooting. In its convention issue, for example, the Blast brushed off the issue of the day with a tactful: "The speaker touched upon one of the major convention topics-the Taft-Hartley Bill." However, such reticence pleases not only the management but also the union. It likes the coverage of union doings but does not want the paper to "tamper with union affairs...
...signature to a 41-page document listing legal loopholes for C.I.O. lawyers to crawl through. Old Bill Green announced that the A.F.L. was planning a national work stoppage on Election Day in 1948, to get out the vote against the Congressmen who had voted for the Taft-Hartley bill...
...Takers. New Jersey's crinkly-haired Representative Fred Hartley, co-author of the Act, was its only vocal defender during the week. He lambasted labor's "brazen effrontery" and called for a congressional investigation of "any and all efforts to by-pass the law, whether by unions working alone or in conspiracy with employers." Employers perked up their ears and wondered what sort of merry-go-round they were on now. Many, for the sake of labor peace, had taken their contract cue from Co-Author Bob Taft. He had found "no illegality" in the coal operators...
...composing rooms all over the U.S., printers sat on sawed-off chairs before tinkling linotype machines and spelled out the news: their A.F.L. International Typographical Union had just thundered its answer to the Taft-Hartley law. The act had outlawed the closed-shop agreements that were the bone & sinew of the I.T.U. So the 95-year-old labor union would simply sign no more contracts. Its 1,001 locals would post unsigned "conditions of employment," and would work as long as the conditions prevailed. Any publisher who rashly tried to alter the conditions-or to hire non-union printers-would...