Word: repeals
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Responding to organized labor's demands during last year's presidential campaign, President Johnson pledged to back repeal of Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act. That provision, long bitterly opposed by labor leaders, permits states to outlaw union shops - in which a worker must join a union to keep his job. Last week in the House, Johnson fulfilled his promise...
...Repeal of 14(b) was the most unpopular proposal that the President had sent up to Capitol Hill. And for that very reason, the Administration and House leaders were determined that it would be rammed through-allowing little time for questions to be asked or for amendments to be proposed. For the first time, a rule adopted last January by the House Democratic majority was invoked; it enabled the House, by a simple majority vote, to bring the bill to the floor before debate limitations were set by the conservative Rules Committee...
...roll-call vote, repeal of 14(b) passed 221 to 203, and the bill now goes to the Senate. Under its provisions, "right-to-work" laws in 19 states would be voided, and in any firm where a union persuades-or forces-management to agree to a union shop, a worker who does not join the union within 30 clays can be fired...
...this all. This year 314 constitutional amendments have been introduced in the House. Ninety-eight deal with apportionment, 65 would give equal rights to women, 41 concern religion. Some of the others would establish a uniform voting age of 18, reform or abolish the electoral college, repeal the income tax, forbid federal-budget deficits except in time of national emergency, and double the two-year term of House members. Most of these also have been introduced in the Senate...
Workshops on Saturday and Sunday will discuss issues from the Vietnam war to the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act's right-towork provisions...