Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eviscerate. Committeemen like elderly Senator Elbert Thomas, James E. Murray, James M. Tunnell, Joseph Guffey, Claude Pepper, were routed. The driving forces were Senator Taft and Minnesota's Joe Ball, both pressing for permanent labor legislation which would correct the in equities of the well-meaning but lopsided Wagner...
...Workers (as well as management) must bargain collectively. (Under the Wagner Act workers can now bargain or not, as they like...
...Foremen could join or form unions but could not be recognized as bargaining agents under the Wagner...
...Harry Truman still spoke reasonably, but the people around the table with him paid him little heed. As his troubles piled around him like cars in a hopeless traffic jam, he got little help from the people, none from Congress -e.g., in such matters as the inequalities of the Wagner Act. Perhaps the concept of the political elite was growing. In Washington one Government labor adviser said: "The only solution to the coal strike is federal seizure, and then let the Government hand the miners and operators a contract." Other extremists, including Socialists with an eye to the future, proposed...
Music-lovers of Prague still liked Bach, Beethoven and Wagner, but they pined for a change of fare: for six years under the Nazis they had heard almost nothing else...