Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor. Minimum wage of 75? an hour (now 40?); restoration to the Labor Department of all the authority taken away from it by the 80th Congress; repeal of the Taft-Hartley law and a return to the more pro-labor pattern of the Wagner Act; government action to maintain "full employment" with a goal of 64 million employed by 1958; more generous unemployment compensation...
Civil Rights. A federal anti-lynching law; repeal of the poll tax in the seven states which still have it; a law against segregation and discrimination in interstate transportation; a permanent federal Fair Employment Practice Commission to see that there is no discrimination in jobs...
...hards held Kansas for nearly 70 years. In 1933, they rejected the federal repeal amendment (21st) with the offended aloofness of a preacher declining a Sazerac. Many a hypocrite, it was said, staggered to the polls to vote...
Thus by last week's Election Day, when Kansans voted again on a repeal amendment, the issue had become more economic than moral. Repeal won. The amendment, banning the saloon but enabling the legislature to provide for package sale of liquor, passed by 60,000 votes. There was still a chance that the legislature would reverse this triumph in the spring. But by vote of the people, Kansas had voted wet, leaving Oklahoma and Mississippi the nation's only remaining dry states...
...Bark. There was no doubt that the stock market, which had been as certain as everyone else of a G.O.P. victory, was panicked by all the Democratic talk of stand-by price controls, an excess-profits tax, repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, and demands for wage boosts from tough, confident unions backed by a labor-minded Administration (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But calmer businessmen recalled that it was a Democratic Congress which had let OPA die, that President Truman had approved the repeal of the wartime excess-profits tax in 1945, and that wage boosts were bound to come anyway...