Word: taft-hartley
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With plenty of good humor, but with knees high and elbows out, Senator Robert Taft waded into the labor-law fight. The unions had made repeal of his Taft-Hartley Act a personal and political fight. Harry Truman had promised to kill it. In a Senate committee hearing room (the arena where he is most effective) Taft fought back...
...From the Taft-Hartley and Wagner Acts it would keep...
Labor Secretary Maurice Tobin put the bill in his tan briefcase one evening last week and went up to Capitol Hill to deliver it in person. Of the Taft-Hartley Act provisions it would kill...
...Communist oath for union officials; the requirement that unions be liable for most of the labor practices that Taft-Hartley had defined as "unfair...
...Democrats. There were signs that the Administration itself, having made a down payment on its debt to labor, wouldn't mind too much if a few amendments were tacked back on. The non-Communist oath, for example, might be put back. And Harry Truman, who had found the Taft-Hartley injunction a handy weapon to use in four national-emergency strikes, might like to have it around again...