Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany and seven other labor leaders were put in proper holiday spirits by the President's renewal of a campaign pledge to work for repeal of the Taft-Hartley law's section authorizing state right-to-work laws. Then, after sandwiching in a buffet supper for some 1,500 White House staffers, the President greeted 14 business leaders. As he always does, Johnson impressed the businessmen, and A. T. & T.'s Frederick R. Kappel spoke for them all when he reported that the President "is being extremely wise in his thoughtful evaluation...
...Welch's view, the 42-million-plus who cast ballots for Lyndon Johnson "actually voted, of course, for repeal of the Declaration of Independence," for "scrapping the U.S. Constitution entirely as an absurd and useless antique," for "completely disarming the U.S., for doing away with our Army, Navy and Air Force," for continuing programs that will "wipe out the value of all their savings, their life insurance policies, their bonds and mortgages, and will redistribute wealth from the industrious and frugal into the hands of the shiftless," and for "more riots to be instigated by racial agitators, for more...
...bill would repeal the law ordering the MDC to build the underpasses. Another would prevent the MDC from beginning construction until it had made a comprehensive study of the recreational uses of the Charles River and submitted it to the Governor; in its survey, the MDC would be compelled to justify the need--and desirability--of the underpasses...
...urging students to attend the hearings "to call attention to the need for repeal of the McCarran Act," Kotz said
...legislative recommendations, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. gave top priority to the repeal of Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley law. The clause gives states the right to enact right-to-work laws, banning union shop contracts. Big Labor has been fighting it since 1947, when Taft-Hartley was enacted. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. figures that next year it will have at least 225 votes for the repeal of 14(b), provided of course that the Johnson Administration does not interfere. That seems unlikely,, especially since Lyndon Johnson ordered a repeal proposal included in the Democratic Party platform...