Word: situs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sitting on Situs. Nonetheless, Meany's blast brought the smoldering feud between labor and the Democratic Party close to open warfare. Already irked by the Administration's tepid efforts to win repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act's Section 14(b), labor's No. 1 legislative goal for the 89th Congress, union tempers were raised to boiling point last week by the House's failure to act on another measure eagerly sought by the unions. Stalled in committee was a bill that would over turn a 1951 U.S. Supreme Court decision prohibiting a union from...
...reason for the so-called "situs" bill's failure to clear Adam Clayton Powell's Education and Labor Committee is that it would chiefly benefit the construction trades unions, which have been notoriously reluctant to admit Negroes. In addition, though the bill has more than enough votes for passage, House Democrats have decided to leave it in committee until the Senate acts. Reason: Democrats from conservative districts feel that they lost votes unnecessarily by supporting the 14 (b) repeal bill only to have the Senate filibuster it to death...