Word: taft-hartley
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...coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats, an unstable alliance which provided no consistent leadership of its own. A Republican-Dixiecrat coalition filibustered and voted to death his civil-rights program. A wider coalition of Democrats and Republicans crushingly repudiated another major Truman election promise: repeal of the Taft-Hartley law. The Senate rejected three of his personal appointees. Congress ignored his request for compulsory health insurance, refused to try the Brannan plan even as an experiment...
...Dulles has been attacking government spending, "statism," and his opponent's "communist" support, Lehman has gone along with President Truman's domestic policy all the way. The ex-governor and former director of UNRRA has defended the principles of the much-maligned "welfare state," and favors repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, extension of social security, and federal aid to education...
...most conspicuous failure of the Congress was its default on two of Truman's favorite items, the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Law and civil rights legislation. In both cases, a defection in his own party stymied the President...
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...Taft-Hartley Law, focal point of last spring's bitter, congressional struggle, doesn't enter the picture too strongly. The steelworkers have already hold up their strike 77 days, just three short of the cooling-off period provided for under the national emergency clause of T-II. The special presidential board was exactly the same as that provided for under the law--and was equally unable to make a binding report. Since President Truman is unlikely to use the injunction (the unions feel that their voluntary delays would make it grossly unfair, and Truman probably agrees), the issue would seem...