Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign opened in earnest this week, Harry Truman left no doubts that he was going to campaign as the champion of labor. Six days before Labor Day, he fired off a message calling for repeal of the Taft-Hartley law, extension of social security and health insurance, an increased minimum wage (from 40? to 75?). Then he climbed aboard his newly refurbished railroad car, the Ferdinand Magellan, to carry his message to a joint A.F.L. and C.I.O. rally in Detroit, to four other Michigan cities, and Toledo...
...More than a hundred Protestant clergymen, speaking through the National Council Against Conscription, picked Sunday, Aug. 22 (a week before draft registration) as a day "of mourning and repentance" and the time to start campaigning for draft repeal...
...mayor of Minneapolis, who has a fast and facile tongue, political courage, and is opposing Joe Ball for Senator in November. The A.D.A. amendment commended Harry Truman for "his courageous stand on the issue of civil rights," and in somewhat obscure words urged Congress, in effect, to repeal the poll tax, set up FEPC, make lynching a federal offense, and end segregation in the armed services...
...worried last week in the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, trying to hoist up the last piece of lumber before all the fears and feuds of the party were exposed. They listened to pleas and threats. Sometimes they argued. Labor's William Green demanded a plank for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, for which most Southern Democrats had voted in Congress. Harold Ickes demanded federal control of tidewater oil lands, which outraged such states' rights defenders as Texas' ex-Governor Dan Moody...
Vague Remedy. The labor section, in deference to the C.I.O and A.F.L., demanded outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. This put conservative Democrats on the spot. But only vague remedial legislation to reduce labor-management conflicts was suggested. On the question of tidewater oil rights: silence...