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Even before the opening-session gavels fell, the air was rife with the shuffling and stomping of party leaders maneuvering for position. The Administration's tactics were: shoot the works, even on such issues as the Brannan Plan and Taft-Hartley repeal, which had little chance of passage, but would presumably make prime political ammunition later on. Administration leaders would plug hard to extend and increase social security, to jar the federal aid-to-education bill loose from the House Education and Labor Committee, to make Congress stand up and be counted on the compulsory health-insurance program...
Hill Called Difficulty. In such a stabilized economy, the power of labor and capital was more nearly in balance than it had been in years. The unions flopped dismally in their No. 1 political objective of wiping out the Taft-Hartley Act, even though their fears that it would cripple collective bargaining had proved false. They had almost no success in their scattered demands for fourth-round wage increases; the drop in prices made such demands untenable. But in the issue of security and pensions, they found a flaming new standard...
...C.I.O., which has frequently demanded a look at a company's balance sheet, last week for the first time disclosed its own, as required by the Taft-Hartley Act. In the C.I.O. News, the union said that on Sept. 30 it had a net worth of $1,480,313, "about 25? for each C.I.O. union member" in the U.S. On this basis, C.I.O. membership was 5,900,000. The union listed its year's income at $3,040,390, and expenditures at $2,883,215. It set forth that its net worth had increased $157,175 since...
...think it accomplished just what I set out to do," said Republican Taft last week in sum-up. "Rather better than I thought. My general impression is that the people who are thinking at all are overwhelmingly on the conservative side. I talked with a lot of workmen and many of them don't have views one way or the other. Certainly they are not concerned about the Taft-Hartley law . . . There is no grass-roots objection, it all comes from the top." After one meeting, Taft remarked: "I guess they don't hate me as much...
...opposed CVA, he explained, because it would take control of the Northwest from the states and hand it over to the Federal Government. He was against the health bill for much the same reason. But, he warned, "The doctors are in the same position [as labor when it got Taft-Hartley] . . . Unless they are willing to sit down and help work out a sound program of health insurance, they will get legislation they won't care for a little...