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Truman's Labor Policies
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Truman's Labor Policies
An examination of the President's approach to strikes, labor-management conflict, relations with Congress, legislation and politics.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages) |
5 sources |
1994
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"President Harry S. Truman's paramount goal in the beginning of his administration was to stabilize the economy by ending the boom-bust cycle that had brought the nation to the brink of chaos in the Great Depression (Truman, 1973, p. 305). From the beginning, he insisted that this could only be achieved if both labor and management exercised social responsibility. He did everything in his power to persuade both sides to do so. In November, 1945, he convened a labor-management conference to work out machinery for dealing with major labor disputes. On December 3, 1945, in a special message to Congress, he outlined a fact-finding program which would have established by impartial investigation how much money workers deserved to get, based on their productivity, and how much money the company could afford to pay, based on its profits. Truman specified that this was a..."More papers on Truman's Labor Policies:
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