Word: union
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SECONDARY BOYCOTT. "Take another company-let us say a furniture manufacturer. Instead of picketing the furniture plant itself [the union officials] picket the stores which sell the furniture this plant manufactures ... to make the stores bring pressure on the furniture plant. How can anyone justify this kind of pressure against stores which are not involved in any dispute...
...LAND. "A labor dispute occurs at a small plant. The union or the employer goes to the Federal Labor Board. The board says the case is too small for federal action [and] state officials can't do anything because the states have no authority. That leaves the worker and his employer in this no man's land ... So all too often the dispute is settled-if we can use such a word-by force ... I want to give the states authority ... I want the no man's land abolished...
...congressional advisers had expected, thousands of letters, telegrams, phone calls swamped the White House and Capitol Hill. Two hours after Ike signed off, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany took to the air to argue that the Landrum-Griffin bill was "a blunderbuss that would inflict grievous harm on all unions.'' And A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President Walter Reuther, attending a conference of the United Auto Workers and the Machinists' Union, said that the President "has been taken in by the opponents of organized labor." The Landrum-Griffin bill, Reuther added, "will weaken the honest labor unions and play...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. was all out for the mildest-yet labor bill, filed by California Democrat John F. Shelley (former president of the California State Federation of Labor). The Shelley bill skips over picketing and boycott abuses, requires financial accounting from unions, and also from management "of expenditures for union-busting activities and hiring of labor spies," as George Meany...
Thus, on the eve of the biggest battle of the session, the heat was on some 15 to 20 Republican swing voters who might be pulled by homeside railroad and building-trades union lobbyists to vote for mild legislation. It was also on an equal number of Southern Democrats tempted to vote for a tough bill but under heavy pressure from Speaker Rayburn-"This is a party issue. What are you, a Democrat or a Republican?"-to vote for the Elliott bill. And over the battle hung the prospect of a presidential veto of any labor bill that...