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...FELLOW DEVILS, by L. P. Hartley (413 pp.; British Book Centre; $3.95), introduces wealthy, prim and Protestant Margaret Pennefather, who hesitates when glamorous Colum Maclnnes proposes marriage. Not only is he a Roman Catholic but his origins are vague; though he has gone to an approved public school, Nick Burden and other classmates think him rather a bounder. Worse, Colum is a film star who looks like Marlon Brando and plays gangsters and crooks...
...seeking bargaining rights. Because the union represented only a few employees, the Florida court barred it from picketing. The Supreme Court held that state courts are without jurisdiction to issue an injunction against picketing if the firm involved is in interstate commerce, is covered by the Taft-Hartley law, and is picketed peacefully. Said the A.F.L.-C.I.O. News: "The decision appears to set 'peaceful picketing' as the standard for legitimate picket lines...
...applied after he became chairman of the Congressional Campaign Committee in 1943, paid off by 1947 in the party's first House majority for 16 years. As Joe Martin moved up to Speaker, Halleck overrode Taft regulars to become majority leader, ramrodded through bills such as the Taft-Hartley Act and tax-cutting measures. Promised -he says-the vice presidential nomination in 1948. Halleck took Indiana votes to Tom Dewey only to see Dewey nod to California's liberal Governor Earl Warren. Halleck has never lost a chance to tell Dewey that the 1948 vote would have gone...
...Right-to-work laws forbid union membership as a condition of employment, thus outlaw union shops, thereby go one step beyond the federal Taft-Hartley Act's no-closed-shop provision. Eighteen states, mostly Southern and Midwestern, already have R.T.W. laws...
...Chamber of Commerce that the bill ought to go through the normal committee channel. If sent to committee so late in the session, the bill would die there, and that is just what the N.A.M. and the Chamber want. Reason: they object to half a dozen minor Taft-Hartley revisions, e.g., requiring employers to report to the Labor Department all financial dealings with labor unions or labor officials. As for reforming unions, the bill is only "half a loaf," argues the N.A.M., apparently forgetting what half a loaf is proverbially better than...