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Harry Truman: This bill would go far toward weakening our trade union movement.

On the recordJune 19, 1947
This bill would go far toward weakening our trade union movement.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Veto of the Taft-Hartley Labor Bill.

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