Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...typical Democratic bogey is the Taft-Hartley law. Democrats have pledged to repeal and rewrite the law, while Republicans would add the 22 liberalizing amendments proposed by Senator Taft three years ago. Since a new Democratic law as proposed by the CIO includes these amendments, the final legislative product will be almost the same no matter who wins...
...Democrats stubbornly insist there is a black and white difference between amendment and repeal. They could have placed their Congressional majority behind Taft's proposals, but they preferred to keep the law inequitable in order to lure the labor vote with promises of repeal...
...Repeal of Taft-Hartley, passage...
...could do that, and Stevenson didn't try, even at the start of the campaign. His Liberal Party speech drew, in part, on a memorandum written by James Wechsler, editor of the far-to-the-left New York Post. The Detroit labor speech, in which Stevenson called for repeal of Taft-Hartley, was written by Willard Wirtz, onetime member of the War Labor Board...
...Repeal of Taft-Hartley...