Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-08-06
Are TIL DaddieS
Ashamed Of Child?
By BRADFORD v. CARTER
LPA COlumniSt

Champions of the Taft Hartley Act extraord
nary kittsh their handwor For the moment at least
they cmorng from the houetops about their pupored
panacea for all industrial Ills
In fact despite all the BalledUp supposed
to the law the of the act
now strangely about their branchld it some
thing unmenonable, like hideous disease.
That particularly evident at the Philadelphia
broler known Republican National Convention the
Hartley Act such great boon to the country you
would the COP convention would have proclaimed a
fact in stenorian tones.
Actually speakers avoided mention of it as though it did
not exist One of the chief archects OF the awIa OF ONO
decsvely spurned when came to selecting stan
dard bearer.
And the platform adopted unanimously by the convention
rights and obligations of each side 1t also
very gngery The platform spoke in general
pledged Continuing study to improve labor MANAGEMENT
legislation the light of experience and changing conditions
which mean much or nothng'
In any event. it's getting closer to election day.
Tory politicians trying to hush the Taft Hartley Act aside
or put up until after November Very clearly
they don't yet regard it sure-fre vote -getter
Another example how the act is rearing and kicking
Supporters occurred during the last lap of Congress
and received relatively little publicity.
was report put out by the farfrom liberal House
Committee Expenditures in Executive Departments headed
by Rep Clare Hoffman the ranting andrabd aoor-haer
from the Wolverine state.
The committee red" because Robert N Denham,
general National Labor Relations Board insisted
the Hartley Acts jurisdiction extended to corner
saloons grocery and almost other small business
Denham's view blasted by the Hoffman committee as
contrary to intent of Congress and calculated
to subject business to lot of legal "red tape
"Under the new Interpretation, the NLRB will have every
business establishment the United States within its power
the committee with great alarm. Certainly 1t was
never the intention Congress impose such burden the
small United States Our national history does
striking example of bureaucratic aggrandize
ment."
While no member of the committee wrote dissent this
viewing with alarm Congressman John W. Mccormack
3D. Miss minority leader in the House He submitted state
ment of accompanying views which cast different light on
the whole
The real rogue" in the squabb is Denham the
act itself Mccormack The anguish of the TaftHarey
proponents arises out of the fact that they now
waking up what they have done"
uyritta in
as to bring practically the whole economic life of the country
even down to store within the purvew of the Taft
Hartley Act"
' plainly apparent that proponents of the act did not
realize they had brought into legal being ne
said "They are fearful of their creation"
What it all shows Mccormack added that "a mistake
was made passing the TaftHartley Act to begin with an
error that only be corrected by outright repeal
Workers of the nation the of convincing the
reaconare beyond doubt that they did make
great passing the act That's by marching oldy to
the polls November and throwing of office those who
voted the monstrosity