Word: repeals
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...would zip right through its agenda and be ready to go home in September. Not everyone is willing to go along quite so easily, however, particularly when it comes to a matter of principle. Just such a matter now threatens to hold congressional adjournment up indefinitely. It is the repeal of section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Law, the famous right-to-work clause. This week the bill, already passed by the House, is scheduled to come up in the Senate. The debate will be heated-and it may be long...
...demolish the remaining state right-to-work laws. Its main argument is that 14(b) undermines union security by allowing nonunion workers to get a "free ride," but that argument is weakening in a day when labor itself enjoys greater acceptance, wealth and influence than ever before. Opponents of repeal argue that labor is so powerful, in any case, that union security hardly hinges on getting rid of 14(b). Most important, they insist that compulsory unionism goes against the ingrained American idea of freedom of choice-and here they are joined by many Americans who have no anti-labor...
...Snap. In the upcoming Senate fight, Lyndon Johnson may well be a reluctant combatant. He voted in 1947 to override Truman's veto of Taft-Hartley. But he promised U.S. labor to fight for repeal of 14(b) in return for its support in 1964 and, to the surprise of many, even put the pledge in his State of the Union speech. To show that he meant it, he pushed so hard when the repeal bill reached the House floor in July that it flashed through, 221 to 203, after a scant five hours of debate. After that...
...join a union-and one of them is Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen. A formidable foe when his dander is up, Dirksen recently went to the White House and, in a now famous confrontation, told Johnson that out of intense personal conviction he was immovably opposed to repeal of 14(b). Indeed, said Ev, he hoped to keep the Senate from voting on the bill through "extended debate"-a Dirksenism for filibuster. "My God," said the President, "you wouldn't do that to me." Replied Ev: "We're not only going...
...went by almost unnoticed-at least by Lyndon Johnson, who knows where golden eggs come from. Still the weary lawmakers are at work, cranking out major bills at a rate rarely matched in U.S. history. And if L.B.J. insists on repaying his campaign debt to labor by trying to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act's right-to-work provision (14-b) this session, they may not get away, in Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen's words, "until the snow flies"-and without having repealed...