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...Free Ride." Debate about 14(b) has raged ever since it became law in 1947. Prior to that year, a wave of major strikes, called by labor to catch up with the rest of the economy after four years of wartime wage controls, had crippled such vital U.S. industries as steel, coal and autos. Over President Harry Truman's veto, a Republican Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act, which not only permits 80-day injunctions against strikes that threaten the national welfare, but expressly declares that states can pass their own laws prohibiting "membership in a labor organization...
Labor has never flagged in its determination to wipe 14(b) off the books and thus 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...
...miles from Santa Fe, the nearest large city, has half a dozen modest bars but few other entertainment facilities. To amuse themselves, Los Alamos residents have formed a disproportionately large number of social clubs (which concentrate on such specialized activities as bird watching, chess and classical music), also hike, ride-200 families own horses-and read extensively. Says Unitarian Minister Robert Lehman: "It is a self-conscious model town where such sin as exists is pretty dreary...
Prices traditionally are set by the biggest, most efficient and most profitable company-General Motors-and Ford and Chrysler ride along. Last week, however, Chrysler President Lynn Townsend jumped the gun, announced price rises to cover the safety equipment. When G.M.'s Chairman Fred Donner 48 hours later announced that G.M.'s prices would be just about the same as last year, Chrysler was left about $50 out of line. Townsend acted either from cockiness or sheer need. Though Chrysler's sales have more than doubled since 1961, its rapid expansion of plants has left the company...
...Harvard Political Scientist (Presidential Power) Richard Neustadt has pointed out, it is an illusion to believe that Johnson can ride roughshod over Congress. At a recent Washington meeting of the American Political Science Association, Neustadt observed: "Underneath our images of Presidents-in-boots, astride decisions, are the half-observed realities of Presidents-in-sneakers, stirrups in hand, trying to induce particular department heads, or Congressmen, or Senators to climb aboard. A sensible President is always checking off his list of 'influentials...