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...days, the Senate listened indifferently to the arguments of a small rear guard of New Dealers against the Taft-Hartley labor bill. When the vote came, 17 Democrats joined the Republicans to pass the bill, 54 to 17. The House had already passed it, 320 to 79-plenty of votes, if the lines held, to override a presidential veto...
...advisers. Among them: Secretary of Labor Lew Schwellen-bach, Treasury Secretary John Snyder, Presidential Counsel Clark Clifford. Clifford produced the yardstick for measuring the labor bill: Does it disturb the rights of labor? According to his answer to this question, the President might or might not veto the Taft-Hartley bill...
Impressed by the fact that the Taft bill could be made into law, House conferees studied how to fit their tougher Hartley bill into its smoother outlines. When House and Senate conferees began negotiations, House conferees were in a conciliatory mood. The bill which would finally emerge would be pretty much Taft...
...bill was now being put together by a ten-man Senate-House conference committee, which was combining the Senate's Taft bill with the House's Hartley bill. The two measures attacked many similar points which would almost certainly appear in the final draft. If enacted, the nation's new labor law would...
That in itself was an admission that the bill would not be perfect. Like all legislation, it would be the result of compromise. Both the Taft and Hartley bills were needlessly complex, and had some confusing passages. Neither represented a fresh start on the labor problem. They were amendments-fairly substantial-of the Wagner Act. But they in no way interfered with the basic purpose of that act, which was to establish labor's right to organize...