Word: outlaw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Outlaw jurisdictional and sympathy strikes...
...Hartley bill proposes to return the injunction as an anti-strike weapon, to outlaw industry-wide bargaining, the closed shop, the check-off of union dues, and to permit the union shop only with the employer's blessing. These and other measures are considered necessary to trim labor's "monopoly." This line of argument overlooks the fact that while organized labor trebled its ranks under the protection of the Wagner and Norris-LaGuardia acts, violence and extra-legal actions have been dropped from the arsenals of those unions that can approach the conference table with bargaining power approximately equal...
...question now arises whether or not we can function as a democracy if the legislation to outlaw the Communist Party is passed. If men can be deprived of the "right to work" because of political beliefs, if men are in "fear" that they may be fired from their jobs because of the illegality of holding certain political beliefs, if under the dubious standard of democracy, men are persecuted for radical opinions, then where is the freedom outlined in the Bill of Rights, the Atlantic Charter, the basic tenets on which our country was founded...
...House bill as approved by the Labor Committee would outlaw the closed shop but permit the union shop, prohibit certain industry-wide bargaining, provide for court injunctions to block serious strikes, abolish the National Labor Relations Board and the U. S. Conciliation Service and replace them with other bodies...
Blinking and snarling in the glare of publicity, the American Communist Party put in a miserable week. The House Un-American Activities Committee was holding hearings on a bill to outlaw the Communists lock, stock & barrel...