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...word sentence seemed to be tacked almost as an afterthought to the labor message sent by President Johnson to Congress last week. It urged repeal of Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley law, "with the hope of reducing conflicts in our national labor policy that for several years have divided Americans." But that sentence was no afterthought: it was the fulfillment of a promise made by Johnson to organized labor during the last presidential campaign-and it seemed likely to set off the hottest fight of this session of Congress...
Section 14(b) gives to the states the right to enact their own right-to-work laws banning union-shop contracts. Nineteen states* have done that, and of the entire Taft-Hartley law, 14(b) has become the section most odious to labor leaders. As a Congressman, Lyndon Johnson voted for Taft-Hartley and to override President Truman's veto. But last year, as he set out to gather votes from every segment of U.S. society, he made clear to A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany that he would seek repeal of 14(b), saw to it that the pledge...
...Commerce President Robert Gerholz. Werner P. Gullander, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, was unhappy because 14(b), he said, "permits the states to protect employees from being forced into labor unions against their will." New Jersey's former Republican Representative Fred A. Hartley, co-author of Taft-Hartley, dismissed the President's proposal as "a ridiculous move." But labor was elated. Calling Johnson's statement "clear and unequivocal," the A.F.L.C.I.O.'s Meany said: "The question here is simply stated: Do you believe in the right of employers and unions to negotiate the kind...
Obviously, McDonald had finally been convinced that if labor is to achieve all its hopes-including repeal of Taft-Hartley's 14(b)-it must first show that it is responsible not only to the public, but to itself...
...first issue, will tentatively include articles by Robert Taft Jr., Winthrop Rockefeller, and William Rusher, a former president of the HYRC who is publisher of the National Review. Taft, Rockefeller, and Rusher have all spoken at Harvard this spring...