FOR REIE2.'S1i!
Monday A.M.
Se ptember 7, 1953
From the Office of
Seno.tor Hubert H. Humphrey
429 Nicollet Hotel
Minneo. polis * lfinnoso to.
Unless tho Administration reconciles its o•vn internal differences and openly
supports revision of the Ta..f't ...Ha.rtley Act itto elimino.te
p~esent
injusti oesu 0 President
Eisonhotl<"·":· ·t'.'. :U bt:> 'tbrea.king fuith 11 with America ~ s working men o.nd women, Sen.ator Hubert
He Humphrey declo.red Sunday (September 6) in a.n o.ddress o.t a. lAbor Day Pionio in Ely.
Senator Humphrey blo.med "fo.ltering
so fur
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leo.ders!>...ip'~
for fo.ilure of tho 83rd Congress
to make good on oa.mpo.ign 'pl0dges to modify the Ta.f't...,H o.rtley Act".
Seno.tor Humph:roy protested the Lo.bor Department being
the rooent session of Congress,
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kept under wraps" during
ruther than the Administro.ticn presenting Congress
with its recammendo.tians for improved lo.bor legisla.tion.
"!Z
if!,;
wo.s in the nation's interests for Gonero.l Eisenhower to co.ll for eliminat-
ing injustico s in tho Ta.i'tooHa.rtley Act lnst fallll it certa.inly should ho.ve been in the
no.tion's interests for President Eisenhower to
mo.ke his views known to proper committees
of the Congress long before now 11 , Senn tor HHumphrey declo..red.
Seno.tor Humphrey so.id he believed Socreto.ry of Labor lltrkin was "sincere" in
seeking satisfactory revision of the controversio.l lo.w 0 but tho.t he was confronted with
''stubborn
opposition from reo. crt iona.ry e lemont s within tho Administration's high
councils."
Ra df:}plored the off-a.gainwoon~o.in
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etro.tegy" of releo.sing proposed reoonunenda-
tions for Ta.ft..;Eio.rtley changes when publicly repudiating thom as not officially
sanctioned by the White House, saying it appeared to be a co.se "of holding out the be.it
of hope to organized labor0 yet at the samo time trying to assure reactionary elements
that nothing wi 11 be done to upset the existing law."
Changes proposed in the ''working dra:f't 11 once released 'but later "denied parenthood" by the Administration, aooording to Senator Humphreyl? were prinnrily the same
revisions recommended by tho Senate lllbor Subcotm\i ttee of which Humphrey wa.s chainnan
more than o. yenr o.go.
Amerioo.•s organized labor shouldn't o.nd ne·e dn !it settle for
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less~
despite
pressures that are naH causing tho Administration to l:nok-traok on its oo.rlior
promises• n senator Humphrey declared.
The chrulgos a.re all intended to eliminate uobvious inequities" shown up in
extensive hearings conducted by the Senate Suboommittee into opera.tions of the Aot,
Senator Humphrey said.
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