Word: taft-hartley
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...building a reputation as a crack executive, a friend of labor, a staunch anti-Communist liberal, Joe Ball had seemed perversely determined to undercut his own earlier supporters. He had lost whatever labor backing he had once had by heading the get-tough-with-labor wing in the Taft-Hartley debates. He had baffled the farmers by plying them with abstruse economic theories. He had alienated many a Republican regular by jumping party lines to vote for Franklin Roosevelt...
...edging out demagogic, 73-year-old Matt Neely, West Virginia's one-man office-holding machine (five times Congressman, thrice Senator, once governor). This time there was less likely to be a surprise. Tub-thumping Matt Neely reminded his good friends the miners of Revercomb's Taft-Hartley vote, reminded Jews and Catholics that Revercomb had refused Tom Dewey's personal plea to broaden provisions of the D.P. bill...
WYOMING. The edge last week lay with Democratic Governor Lester Hunt. A friendly, fast-traveling campaigner, he was winning friends among the coal miners and oil workers by plumping for repeal of the Taft-Hartley law, winning friends among the sheepmen and cattlemen by promising more reclamation projects. It was the toughest kind of competition for dignified, stiff-necked Senator Edward Robertson, who had never starred at the backslapping, baby-kissing game...
Both the company and the union appealed to the courts. The Wagner Act, said the company, did not stipulate that pensions were subjects for bargaining. The Taft-Hartley Act's non-Communist affidavits, said the union, were unconstitutional...
Last week the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago slapped down both company and union. It ruled 2 to i that the Taft-Hartley Act's requirement for non-Communist affidavits is constitutional. It ruled unanimously that management must bargain on pensions with qualified unions. Even employers who already have pension systems, said the court, will have to consult unions on any changes. Both Inland and the union will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court...