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...given up. The three-day week had saved him from a possible Taft-Hartley injunction, would keep the rank & file quiet and keep the coal stockpile down to a size where he might be able to use a coal shortage as a bargaining weapon. Lewis had also gained time in which to try to divide management by making separate agreements-a strategy which Phil Murray had used successfully against the steel industry. He badly needed...
Harry Truman, as he explained to reporters, felt that the time had not yet come to toss a Taft-Hartley injunction at the 480,000 United Mine Workers. John Lewis, it was true, had merely suspended his coal strike and was threatening to start it again Dec. 1. But there was no national emergency yet, at least as the President saw it. If one materialized, the Taft-Hartley Act would be trundled into...
...When the Taft-Hartley Act banned the closed shop from union contracts, the International Typographical Union figured out a simple dodge. The printers refused to renew their contracts, but insisted that publishers agree instead to informal "conditions of employment" which actually kept the closed shop in operation. Many newspapers agreed; the Chicago publishers refused, and the I.T.U. struck. To test the legality of the printers' policy, the American Newspaper Publishers Association and the Chicago Newspaper Publishers Association filed separate suits against the I.T.U. before the National Labor Relations Board. Last week, six weeks after the Chicago publishers...
Profitable Failure. Politically, the White House inner operatives thought they could make as much capital out of some of their failures as out of their accomplishments. Truman's inept fight for the repeal of Taft-Hartley and for civil-rights legislation had confirmed him, they argued, as the champion of labor and the Negro. What they meant was that labor and the Negro might have no grounds for gratitude to Harry Truman, but might still prefer him to his opponents. Crowed one Fair Dealer with satisfaction: "We haven't lost a Negro vote. We haven't lost...
...touchstone of the Taft-Hartley law, the 81st Congress was closer political kin to the 80th than it was to Harry Truman. By the touchstone of what his political opponents had said he could or could not achieve, Harry Truman had won quite a bit, though it was not nearly as much as he had asked or as he had promised to get. Said he, perhaps mindful of the do-nothing days of early summer: "You know, I'm happy about the record of Congress. It accomplished more than I expected...