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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1947
Page
15
Standard Oil Company Indiana announced an allocation plan to fairly distribute its available gasoline for June July and August. The total supplies will roughly match last year's period and be equitably distributed among customers.
Senators across the nation react to the veto override on the labor bill. Senator Aiken argues the Republican Party may lose the labor vote but could regain it with amendments in the next Congress. Senator Byrd notes Truman’s narrow Senate support, while Ives believes union members will decide based on the bill's operation.
The Treasury Department reports Britain withdrew another 100 million dollars from its 3.75 billion loan. This marks the second withdrawal this month, leaving 1.7 billion dollars still available to Britain. Britain previously drew 200 million on June 2.
The International Brotherhood of Paper Makers pledged wholehearted support to AFL President William Green in a campaign to repeal the Taft Hartley law.
The Senate on Monday defeated President Truman's veto of the Taft Hartley Labor Bill by a two thirds margin. Of 95 members, 68 voted to override. 25 opposed. List includes Republicans Aiken Ball Brewster Bricker Bridges Brooks Buck Bushfield Butler Capehart Capper Cooper Cordon Donnell Dworshak Ecton Ferguson Flan ders Gurney Hawkes Hickenlooper Ives Jervier Kern Knowland Lodge McCarthy Milken Moore Reed Revercomb Robertson Saltonstall Smyth Taft Thye Tobey Vandenberg Watkins Wherry White Wiley Williams Wilson Young. Democrats Byrd Connally Eastland Ellender Fulbright George Hatch Hoey Holland Maybank McClellan McKellar OConnor ODaniel Overton Robertson Vad Russell Stewart Cydings Umstead. Not voting but announced against overriding: Thomas Utah and Wagner. Senate membership 95.
Congress faces a “tragic mistake” critics say will curb production. Labor leaders including John Lewis threaten a nationwide coal strike as contracts in major East Coast shipyards near expiry. The Foreman’s Association of America vows to challenge the act’s constitutionality, highlighting supervisory exemption. The Packard case follows a 12 year fight for bargaining parity under Wagner Act.
The Foreman's Association of American plans an early court test of Taft-Hartley as it applies to foremen, with FAA president Robert Keys coordinating a time and place. Despite the law, 3,800 Ford foremen who walked out five weeks ago over contract terms will continue their strike.
House leaders scheduled a vote today on a bill to extend the Reconstruction Finance Corporation life for two years with curbs to limit new business to 2 billion dollars. If approved by the House the measure must be reconciled with the Senate version extending RFC life one year beyond June 30.
A summary of the new labor law outlines immediate measures to curb strikes that threaten national emergencies, ban jurisdictional and secondary boycotts, allow suits for damages, restrict automatic wage deductions for union dues, and bar nonconforming welfare funds. Sixty days after override, provisions expand to unfair labor practices, closed shops, political activity limits, and a larger National Labor Relations Board, with the old conciliation service replaced by a federal mediation and conciliation service. The act excludes supervisory workers and certain sectors including agriculture, domestic service, federal/state/local government employees, Federal Reserve Banks, government corporations, and non profit hospitals.
The text questions which unions will be affected by a new law, asking if it applies to 1,500,000 organized construction workers and trades like carpenters and masons. It notes bans on closed shops and jurisdictional disputes, cites Wagner Act coverage gaps, and mentions possible NLRB changes and NYC negotiations ongoing.
Quincy Massachusetts. About 3000 workers at the Bethlehem Steel ship yard were ordered to oil and grease machinery and pack company tools as a possible strike looms at midnight tonight. Andrew Pettis, regional director of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers, said no strike order would be issued before the legal deadline.
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