Word: taft-hartley
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Meanwhile, legislative time was flying. By midweek, Majority Leader Bob Taft ordered daily sessions (instead of a session every other day). The Republican Policy Committee laid down an immediate schedule: after tidelands, economic controls, and then Hawaii statehood. (Still without a definite place on the schedule: revision of the Taft-Hartley law.) When appropriations bills reach the floor, the schedule may be disrupted, for they will get the right...
...with congressional leaders to seek a new way to remodel the Taft-Hartley...
...This is type set by I.T.U. printers which duplicates advertising matter received in matrix form. Bogus is not intended to be used, but it makes work for union members. The American Newspaper Publishers Association contended that bogus is featherbedding, and thus banned as an unfair labor practice by the Taft-Hartley...
This week the high court, 6-3, ruled that bogus is not outlawed by Taft-Hartley...
Speaking for the majority, Justice Harold Burton held that Taft-Hartley banned featherbedding only when a union exacted payment for service not performed. The need, or usefulness of the service, was immaterial. Chief Justice Vinson and Justices Clark and Douglas dissented. Said Douglas: "In no sense ... is [bogus] 'service' to the employer...