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...Hercules would admit the inadequacy of his law to handle labor problems in times of national stress. The government's dilemma is this; on one side there are production schedules which must be kept, on the other there is the constitutionally protected right to strike. The Taft-Hartley Law's injunction powers are worthless here because their use simply gives each side eighty days more to think up bigger and better arguments against each other. And if the Miners' strike of 1947 is any indication, the government cannot make an injunction stick anyway. What is needed, then, is some agency...
...answered like a candidate on some other subjects. Taxes: "It certainly seems to me they're too high for our prolonged economic stability . . . [But] the tax burden ... is due largely to the national defense effort . . ." Taft-Hartley law: "There are . . . more than a hundred provisions, I think-sections, subsections . . . I couldn't answer am I for or against it ... I think the law needs revision . . ." Compulsory FEPC: "I would hope very much that the problem of civil rights could be administered by the states . . . If it's impossible for the states to do this...
Labor. FOR: the President's 1946 request for power to draft rail strikers into the Army. AGAINST (with Truman): Taft-Hartley Act, Case anti-strike bill...
After supporting much of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, Russell broke sharply with the Truman Administration, supported the Taft-Hartley law, opposed the Brannan farm plan. On civil rights, he has followed the Southern line without deviation, defending segregation, the filibuster and the poll tax, opposing FEPC. Arguing that "interfering" Northerners don't understand the problem, he once proposed that the South trade 1,500,000 Negroes for an equal number of Northern whites to "equalize" the racial problem. "My idea is that a good deal of civil-rights legislation should be called 'civil-wrongs' legislation...
Lewis: If you are ever elected President and Joe Stalin asks you about the Taft-Hartley slave act, I don't know how you are going to explain...