Word: taft-hartley
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...record on domestic policy is not such a happy one. When the Republicans stampeded behind malevolent bills like Taft-Hartley and the McCarran Acts, the junior Senator from Massachusetts voted with them. When candidate Eisenhower took an ambivalent and recreant stand on McCarthyism, Lodge announced his support of the Wisconsin Senator and declared he would be glad to have him come to Massachusetts to help him in the campaign. Yet he has sponsored sound legislation creating the Hoover Commission, providing Federal aid for schools and health purposes, liberalizing immigration laws, and attempting to end the filibuster. This is the record...
...same careful intelligence pervades his views on labor questions, especially the Taft-Hartley Law. Rather than ascribe all good or all evil to T.H. Stevenson has admitted its complexity and handled it gingerly. Although he favors substitution of a bill that will not reward strikebreakers with a vote or permit an employer to keep workers on the same pay eighty days more than they wish, he has said openly that some of the Law's provisions are salutary...
Although some of its member unions have endorsed presidential candidates in recent elections, the American Federation of Labor has not done so since 1924, when its Executive Council supported Bob La Follette on a third-party ticket. Ever since passage of the Taft-Hartley Law in 1947, however, some A.F.L. leaders (notably the Garment Workers' Dave Dubinsky, the Railway Clerks' George Harrison and A.F.L. Secretary Treasurer George Meany) have been determined to maneuver the federation into openly avowed support of the Democratic presidential candidate. Dubinsky & Co., maneuvered well. Last week, when 800 delegates to the federation...
Then Eisenhower got down to the Taft-Hartley Law. While his audience sat in stony silence, the General said: "I am in favor not of repealing, but of amending, the law." Later when he said that the law must be altered to prevent union-busting, and that employers as well as union leaders should take the non-Communist oath, he got cheers...
...this week began, Adlai Stevenson came up to bat before the convention. Amidst shouts of approval, Stevenson declared that he favored repeal of the Taft-Hartley Law-"not a recap job with reclaimed Republican rubber." He urged that the Department of Labor be given more funds and functions, and called for the presence of more labor representatives in "positions of key responsibility in Government." The delegates who had given Ike a tepid reception now whistled and shouted, "Pour it on, Steve." With the Stevenson speech over, the A.F.L. Executive Council recommended that federation members support Adlai Stevenson for the presidency...