Word: taft-hartley
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...Everything is backing up like plumbing," says Robin Lanier, executive director of the West Coast Waterfront Coalition, which represents retailers and manufacturers that depend on the ports. The coalition has called on President George W. Bush to use his authority under the Taft-Hartley Act to impose an 80-day cooling-off period. But as long as a mediator is meeting with both sides, Bush is unlikely to intervene...
...landslide that gave the G.O.P. control of both houses for the first time since the election following the Great Crash of 1929. Nixon asked to be put on the Education and Labor Committee, which was going to rewrite the rules of labor relations through the Taft-Hartley Act. In return, he was asked to serve on an eccentric committee that devoted its time to noisy investigations of "un- American activities." It was to be the making of his career...
...would be no guaranteed income. He told poor whites in Kentucky to get up off their porches and clean up the abandoned cars pocking the landscape. He told everyone to "work their butts off." He didn't pander to labor by promising to work for the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, which curbs strikes. He told students he would end the shame of college deferments. He preached, as only Jesse Jackson has been able to since, that fathers must take care of the babies they made. He spoke of the crippling effect of welfare. And when an audience...
...endorsed Republican Thomas Dewey over Harry Truman. His change of heart, the youthful Simon explained, came because he preferred the Democrats' commitment to "world peace" and "genuine world free trade" and faulted the Republicans for their backsliding on "civil rights" and their antilabor sentiments symbolized by the Taft-Hartley Act. The same thoughts and phrases echo in his speeches today. What distinguishes him in the current campaign is that, from his bow tie to his emphasis on creating jobs, Simon, 58, has remained faithful to Truman and to bedrock Democratic Party values...
...victory. It was Carter and the Democrats who whipped up an anti-Soviet fever with the hypocritical "human rights" campaign. It was under the Peanut Boss that the resurgent Klan and Nazis executed the Greensboro massacre. And it was this "friend of labor" who slapped striking miners with the Taft-Hartley injunction in 1978. That's why we call on workers to break with the Democrats and build a workers party to fight for a workers government...