Word: taft-hartley
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...smooth New York television show, Taft had friendly reporters on hand to bring up the right subjects and comely "Belles for Bob" to introduce well-rehearsed members of the audience. Eisenhower, said Taft, was coming around nicely to the Taft views on domestic policy, although he really didn't seem to understand the Taft-Hartley law. Asked about Ike's request for farm editors' help to learn about farm policy, Taft chuckled: "I've been educated for some 15 years on farm policy." Later, he took a swat at the farm editors. "My own opinion...
...Both Taft and Eisenhower are too conservative, said Stassen, and only a Republican like Stassen can win in November. Said he: "Concerning FEPC and civil rights, both Taft and Eisenhower support watered-down laws, leaving control solely to the states and on a voluntary basis . . . On Taft-Hartley and labor legislation, Eisenhower would make no changes. I am in favor of writing a completely new labor law . . . On the budget and taxes, I do not see how anyone can make tax or budget cuts as Taft and Eisenhower have proposed without dropping the bottom out of our effective world leadership...
...press conference last week, the President was asked about using the Taft-Hartley law to end the steel strike. The Senate has approved a request that he apply Taft-Hartley. Truman sounded off: regardless of what the House and Senate think, they can't tell him what...
Then he capped his remarks by saying that the 80-day cooling-off period provided by the Taft-Hartley law would not help matters a bit; the unions, having previously delayed their strike for 99 days, might ignore a Taft-Hartley injunction...
There were two noteworthy points about Truman's chestiness. 1) He had reversed himself again in his attitude toward Congress. Earlier, he had asked Congress "to make the choice" of giving him a seizure law or directing him to use Taft-Hartley; this implied that he would abide by Congress's decision. 2) By his statement last week he had practically invited the steel unions not to obey a Taft-Hartley injunction, if finally he applies the law of the land...