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LABOR. Repeals the Taft-Hartley Act provision that allows states to ban union shops. Thus, the so-called right-to-work laws now on the books in 19 states would be invalid...
Workshops on Saturday and Sunday will discuss issues from the Vietnam war to the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act's right-towork provisions...
Died. Robert Johns Bulkley, 84, onetime Democratic Congressman (1910-15) and Senator (1930-38), from Ohio, friend of F.D.R.'s, sponsor of New Deal reforms (Home Loan Bank Act, Securities Exchange Act), who lost his seat in 1938 to Robert A. Taft, after which he retired from politics, returned to a successful Cleveland law practice; of a heart attack; in Bratenahl, Ohio...
...lawyers because they could not afford them (60% still cannot). A disproportionate number of people wound up in jail or on death row largely because they happened to be poor, undefended and ignorant of their rights. In short, criminal justice remained, as the highly conservative William Howard Taft-later Chief Justice-described it in 1905, "a disgrace to our civilization...
...Republicans for Progress is at the liberal end of the splinter spectrum, aspires to election-year action and perennial idea production. It will assist individual candidates of whom it approves while generating programs it hopes to sell to the party as a whole. Its chairman is Charles P. Taft, brother of the late "Mr. Republican" and the most liberal of the Ohio Tafts...