Taft-Hartley Act, 1946-1954

Telegram to AFL affiliates from AFL President Green, urging them to wire Senators protesting anti-Labor legislation, May 28, 1946; statement by AFL Executive Council against anti-labor legislation pending in the Senate, May 15, 1946; "AFL National Union Heads Pledge Vigorous Fight to Repeal Labor Act and Vote Out Its Supporters," text of policy statement adopted at special conference of national and international officers, 1947 (hand notation), 4 pages (incomplete); AFL Executive Council press statement (taken from minutes) calling for repeal of Taft-Hartley, n.d. (c. 1947); letter to AFL President Green from CIO President Murray, requesting meeting to formulate a joint program, July 2, 1947; confidential report by AFL counsel J. Albert Woll, "Section 313 of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act and Its Effect on Contributions and Expenditures by Labor Organizations in Political Campaigns," December 3, 1947, 26 pages; press release by AFL President Green, commenting on report of Joint Congressional Committee on Labor-Management Relations, March 15, 1948; "Statement by Richard J. Gray, President Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL, Before the Joint Committee on Labor Management Relations of the Congress of the U.S., May 25, 1948," condemning Taft-Hartley, 12 pages; letter from AFL President Green to Acting President, International Molders and Foundry Workers, urging him to prepare a radio program against Taft-Hartley, September 30, 1948; report of the first meeting of the AFL National Legislative Council's Administrative Committee re efforts of repeal Taft-Hartley, January 11, 1949; "Statement by William Green, President, AFL before the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare ... February 15, 1949, re repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act ..." 5 pages; statement of AFL President Green before the Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives, March 16, 1949, 5 pages plus proposed amendments; "The Taft-Hartley Act," unsigned, probably by AFL representative or legislative committee, re legislative efforts to repeal Taft-Hartley, [1949], 5 pages; "Minutes, Joint Meeting of Labor's League for Political Education and the National Legislative Council of the AFL," July 19-20, 1949; "Memo for files" by AFL legislative representatives W. C. Hushing and George Riley re "Talk With Senator Taft on reported proposed Amendments to the Taft-Hartley Act," December 15, 1950; form letter from AFL President Green with attached Building and Construction Trades Bulletin, November 29, 1951; "Statement of George D. Riley" before the Senate Subcommittee on Labor and Public Welfare, May 21, 1952, 4 pages; minutes of AFL Executive Council meeting with statement by President George Meany re President's recommendation to Congress for amendment of Taft-Hartley, January 13, 1954, 6 pages; reprint from Journal of Political Economy, Volume LVI, Number 3, June 1948: "The Closed Shop and the Taft Act."