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A Union Eye View of 1949
The 1949 labor program aims to repeal Taft Hartley and restore Wagner Act rights, with calls for higher minimum wage, broader social benefits, health insurance, education aid, housing, and stronger labor protections. Unions mobilize while Congress debates wage standards, public housing, and economic policy amid strikes and political battles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Truman
William Green
Philip Murray
Labor Department
Council of Economic Advisers
OPA
United Auto Workers
CIO
Dean Acheson
AFL
International Federation of Democratic Trade Unions
Senate Labor Committee
Labor
League For Political Education
America Medical Ass’n
House
TVA
ECA
Supreme Court
NLRB
Taft- Hartley
Int’l Longshoremen & Warehousemen’s
San Francisco
Michael J. Quill
New York Cio Council
Columbia Valley
Pacific Northwest
Charles Brannan
John Carson
Federal Trade Commission
Carson
Cooperative League-Usa
NAM
Fulton Lewis, Jr
American Newspaper Guild-Cio
Associated Press
Press
Nat’s
Maritime Union-Cio
Guadalcanal
Senate