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...Taft-Hartley Act. "I think that the Taft-Hartley Act, far beyond the understanding of the general public, was intended to give protection to all workers, and I think that's the spirit in which our Government should...
...have been put in the hands of businessmen. The Federal Power Commission includes two men who formerly represented private utilities; the National Labor Relations Board includes two lawyers who formerly represented management in cases before the NLRB as well as a former Taft assistant who helped push the Taft-Hartley law through Congress; the Securities and Exchange Commission includes two former stockbrokers, a former investment banker, and two lawyers whose firms represent major brokerage houses; the Federal Trade Commission's first G.O.P. chairman formerly represented companies in price-discrimination brought...
Meany even conceded that the Wagner Act, which labor regards as its Magna Carta, "perhaps went too far one way just as I think the Taft-Hartley Act goes' too far the other way. I never went on strike in my life, never ordered anyone else to run a strike in my life, never had anything to do with a picket line." The audience applauded, but the spirit of comradeship lasted only a moment...
...campaign when the CIO endorsed FDR's candidacy. The AFL was somewhat slower but no less fervent in its political affiliations. Although it did not back Truman in 1948, it allowed its top men to aid the Democrats on an unofficial basis. The struggle to repeal the Taft-Hartley Bill made the actions of the LLPE and the PAC even more partisan and, in 1952, both AFL and CIO conventions formally approved Stevenson. American labor had finally, and perhaps irrevocably, entered the ground upon which it had feared to tread...
...Many professional politicians, while openly welcoming the prestige and financial support that goes with big labor's support, privately deprecate AFL and CIO endorsement as a "kiss of death" in many campaigns. They point to the Ohio Senatorial election of 1950 where the CIO tried to make the Taft-Hartley Act a major issue. The attempt failed miserably; Bob Taft, the Act's sponsor, won by thumping pluralities--even in districts where a large proportion of the voters belonged to unions--and in spite of the CIO's mobilization of huge financial and propaganda resources behind Democrat "Jumpin' Joe" Ferguson...