Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more rank & file protest is that prosperity has been high and unemployment low since the act was passed in 1947. It has remained unamended because it was originally passed by overwhelming bipartisan majorities, and, until recently, liberally interpreted by a Democrat-controlled NLRB. Furthermore, labor leaders wanted outright repeal. Though the labor leaders have since changed their tune, the Taft-Hartley fight remains a battle of the professionals. And like old pros who have been through all this before, they may well let the battle die-and Congress will feel no need to change...
...During my election campaign I naively spoke of repealing the Law for the Defense of Democracy ... I now realize that the Communists are unworthy to obtain the repeal of a law which keeps them where they cannot harm the country...
...Call for Repeal. Among other actions, the convention...
...resolution supporting "the efforts of our affiliates to negotiate guaranteed annual wage agreements"-a pet project of Reuther's. ¶ Demanded that the federal minimum wage, now 75? an hour, be raised to $1.25. Even that, said Reuther, is "not adequate," just a "first step." ¶Called for repeal of the Taft-Hartley act. Earlier, the delegates heard Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell suggest that they "preclude further talk of repeal" and "concentrate on those features of the law which are really dangerous to labor, really loaded, really unfair." Mitchell did not say what unfair features...
...merits. But it is even more vital-now, when many state legislatures are considering bills limiting the protection of the Fifth Amendment. Abuses of this amendment, like shielding friends or using silence to be doubly safe have clouded its necessity and constantly increase demands for its repeal. If these abuses are not checked, repeal may well follow. And forced testimony traded for immunity is far better than forced testimony alone...