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Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 08:50:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: louisgodena-AT-ids.net (Louis R Godena)
Subject: Re: M-I: Query on Taft-Hartley.



The Labor-Management Relations Act (Taft-Hartley) was unsuccessfully vetoed
by Truman in June, 1947.

Louis Godena 

Carrol writes:

>Was the Taft Hartley act passed in 1947 or 1948? I wish to write a letter
>to the local paper dealing with that Act, and I want to be accurate in my
>dates.
>
>Carrol
>
>P.S. Gary's reference to the illegality of secondary boycotts (in
>Australia as well as the U.S. I find out) touches on what must be a key
>element in the development of labor strategy in the coming decades: a
>fight against that prohibition, the passive acceptance of it in the minds
>of so many workers, and the active collusion of the labor bureaucracy in
>implementing that prohibition and that acceptance of it.
>
>
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