Word: wagnerism
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EVERY day," said bombastic John L. Lewis, "I have a matutinal indisposition that emanates from the nauseous effluvia of that oppressive slave statute." Lewis was, of course, referring to the Taft-Hartley Act, which other labor leaders have more simply branded a union-wrecker. Just as the Wagner Act was passed at a time when business was in disrepute, so Taft-Hartley was passed as a result of the excesses of organized labor. But Co-Author Bob Taft thought the act far from perfect, later suggested more than a dozen amendments. Last year congressional committees took 7,000 pages...
Some Taft-Hartley provisions, designed to modify the Wagner Act, have little effect because they are unenforceable or simply ignored. Hence, some of the proposed changes would simply bring the law in line with reality. The closed-shop ban, for example, has been ignored, notably in the construction, maritime and amusement trades where the unions have the labor market sewed up. The Administration wants to permit a virtual closed shop in these industries. When a firm handles work for a struck company, the union obviously has a grievance-and in such cases Eisenhower would legalize secondary boycotts...
...golden age in the 19th century. Then the hill villages of Anticoli and Saracinesco, which have traditionally supplied artist models to the capital, still sent their handsomest daughters to Margutta studios. Fashionable painters gave parties at which young artists sipped champagne with Adelina Patti, Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner. Wagner was so fascinated with Via Margutta that he considered settling down there. The Marguttiani, appalled at having their peace disturbed by "a German who writes futuristic music," were relieved when the composer abandoned the idea...
...Wagner Act: in the Senate, 49 Democrats, twelve Republicans; in the House, an overwhelming voice vote. For Taft-Hartley: in the Senate, 47 Republicans. 21 Democrats; in the House, 215 Republicans, 93 Democrats...
President Eisenhower's recommendations on labor law, which went to Congress this week, were cut out of the same cloth as his State of the Union message. He recognized that the Wagner Act, passed "by bipartisan majorities" in 1935, was necessary to protect the workingman. He noted that the Taft-Hartley Act, passed "by bipartisan majorities"*i n 1947, was necessary to cope with the new power of unions. Taft-Hartley is sound legislation, Eisenhower said, but experience gained under it "indicates that changes can be made to reinforce its basic objectives...