The union times., 1947-06-21
Seven Changes
 In Votes Would Uphold Truman
Conn. Workers Count On McMahon, But See Bald win Lining Up With
 Reactionaries
By NATHAN SHERMAN

As The Union Times went to press Tuesday, the entire nation was waiting to see if President Truman would veto the Taft-Hartley Slave Labor Bill. There was a wideIy-held belief that the President would throw the bill back in the faces of the Republicans and Democrats who voted for it, and defy them to enact it into law over his veto.
 In the meantime, Connecticut labor was hard at work sending messages to its representatives | in the United States Senate, urg- ing them to uphold the President, if he vetoes the Taft-4art1ey Bill. Labor in this state knew that 1t could depend on Sen, Brien Mo Mahon to vote to uphold Presi- dent Truman, but held little hope that Sen. Raymond E. Baldwin would desert the coalition of Re publicans and Democrats who have banded together to emascu- late the American labor move ment.
 WIDE ACTIVITY
 In addition to Connecticut, there was wide activity throughout the nation on the Hartley-Taft battle front. In New York, Sen. Robert F. Wagner, who stands high in Democratic Party Councils, firmly predicted that President Truman will veto the bill.
 The Social Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Council denounced the bill and urged President Truman to veto it.
 The Chicago City Council by a vote of 36-1, adopted a strong reso1u- tion condenning the bill, and calling for Presidential veto.
 SEVEN VOTES 
 The important thing to remember is that if only seven Senators switch their votes, veto by President Tru- man can be sustained, and the Bill will be killed.
 WE OPPOSE BECAUSE:
 It would take the National Labor Relations Board at least 10 years to conduct the 50000 separate elections required by the bill before existing union-shop contracts could be extend ed This estimate is based upon the fact that the maximum number of elections which the NLRB has ever succeeded in holding in any one year has been only slightly in excess of 5000.
 In fact, it would take more than 10 years to check current contracts as they expire, because the Board also must conduct thousands of elections on representation and union shop clauses in new contracts.
 VINDICTIVENESS
 The AFL's Labor Monthly Survey, in an analysis of the bill, declared that the legislation would completely crip- pie collective bargaining.
 "The entire bill,'' said the Survey, lis conceived in spirit of vindictiveness against unions, rejection of collective bargaining the principle of equality between employer and union. It re- stores the domination of management through a vast government bureauc- racy" Here are the chief points of the Surveys analysis:
 l. OlIective bargaining: Equality of bargaining power is destroyed, the union is no longer strong enough effectively to sup port the workers cause. Govern ment boards and courts with pro- cedural delays are brought between employers and workers, impeding the normal process of contract ne- gOtiatiOn. Litigation is invited, di- verting the normal development of sound and cooperative relations be- tween workers and employers into a process that leads to lawsuits, court action and power politics"
 2-Workers' Rights and Liberties: Although workers right to organize is, supposedly accepted by the bill, this right is SO circumscribed as to be practically nu1lifed. By charges of coercion" in selling unionism, to non- member fellow workers, union may effectively be stopped from organiz- ing
 ''It is an unfair labor practice to restrain or cOerce employees, but these words are not defined and may be so broadly interpreted that injunctiOns can be brought against
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