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President Truman threw the whole ball of fat into the fire. With a 5,500-word message which left no doubts as to which side he had picked, he vetoed the Taft-Hartley labor bill. Harry Truman had chosen the Left side of the line. He had followed the advice of Administration labor specialists and his close adviser, Clark Clifford. He had bought labor's case, lock, stock & barrel; on many points his vehement, sharply worded message to Congress (see col. 3) squared exactly with the analysis of Lee Pressman, the C.I.O.'s able counsel, a Communist-line...
...rawhiding from organized labor after he broke the railroad strike and proposed drastic emergency anti-strike action such as jail terms for recalcitrant labor leaders, and Army conscription of workers who balked. "Slave bill" had been labor's name for that measure, as it was for the Taft-Hartley bill. Labor's rallying cry then was: "Down with Truman" (TIME, June 10, 1946). Cool heads in Congress-notably Bob Taft's-had got Harry Truman off that hook by beating his bill...
...Senate after that and the Senate unrolled an extraordinary show. First, Republican Whip Kenneth Wherry tried to get an agreement on a time to vote. But Oregon's dapper New Dealing Republican Wayne Morse, who had opposed the Taft-Hartley bill from the beginning, objected to any closing of debate. Republican Morse joined with Democrats Claude Pepper, Harley Kilgore, Glen Taylor to filibuster...
...Taft-Hartley Act-officially the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947 -is the first fundamental change in labor-relations ground rules in nearly twelve years. By expert analysis, these are some of the things it will...
...lawyer's eye, there seemed to be many another loophole and many an arguable provision in the Taft-Hartley Act, as there was in the Wagner Act. Final interpretation will only come, as it did with the Wagner Act, after years of litigation in the nation's courts...