Word: repeal
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Senator Fulbright's good friends the Southern industrialists were overjoyed, but his good friends in the Textile Workers Union of America. C.I.O., were not. Said T.W.U. Executive Vice President William Pollock, in an appeal for repeal of the Fulbright amendment: "What the court said, in effect, is that it is quite proper for employers in one section of the country to pay less for the same work as long as they can get away with it. Under this kind of reasoning we should also abolish the federal minimum wage law [under which the minimum is 75? an hour...
Freedom v. Freeloading. In their all-out campaign to block new "right to work" laws and repeal existing ones, labor unions are backed by many church leaders, Protestant, Catholic and Jewish. The laws' supporters are management groups and Chambers of Commerce eager to attract new industry into their localities. In the South, the supporters are Democrats; elsewhere they are mostly Republicans. Main argument for outlawing the union shop: workers who do not wish to join a union are coerced by contracts requiring them to do so or lose their jobs. Main argument against: under the federal Taft-Hartley...
Attempts to repeal "right to work" laws have been knocked down in four states this year, but by close margins, e.g., 46-61 in the Iowa house and 14-16 in the Tennessee senate. The governors of Tennessee and Iowa, Democrat and Republican respectively, urged repeal. Two states, New Hampshire and Delaware, which adopted "right to work" laws in 1947, repealed them in 1949. Such bills have been defeated this year in Massachusetts (by a house vote of 190-2), Maryland and Idaho, and other legislatures where they have been introduced are viewing them with jaundiced eyes...
...Fair Trade' pricing," said the report, "may enable distributors to extinguish price competition . . . 'Fair trade,' when used as a device for relieving distributors from the rigors of price competition, is at odds with the most elementary principles of a dynamic free-enterprise system."Congress should repeal the Miller-Tydings law, which exempts price-fixers of name-brand products from antitrust action, and the McGuire Act of 1952, which makes a minimum-price agreement signed by one retailer with a manufacturer binding on all retailers in a state. Said the committee: "As a result of local enabling...
...fast went on and his husky frame shrank, letters and telegrams began piling up at his bedside. A committee for "Freedom of Conscience" plastered towns and villages with posters. The newspapers joined in, and most agreed with Zmanim, which editorialized: "The legal situation is absurd." Ranged against repeal of the religious marriage law was the force of Israel's religious parties and of those Jews who fear that mixed marriages may dilute or destroy the separate racial identity of the Jewish people. "One out of every three Jewish men in the U.S. wed Christian women," said the Deputy Minister...