Draft, Address to the American People on the Veto of the Taft-Hartley Bill
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OCR Page 1 of 9My fellow countrymen:
At noon today I sent the Congress a message vetoing the Taft-
it is a bad bill.
Hartley labor bill. I vetoed this bill because I am convinced
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It is bad for labor, to bad for management,
it becume law, it would be harmful to the people of the Uni ted states.
bad for the country.
I had hoped that Congress would send me a labor bill I could sign.
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sand before and 0 say now,
I have stated zeveral times that we need legislation to correct
abuses in the field of labor relations.
RECOBDS
SERVICE
Last January I made specific recommendations to the Congress
as to the kind of labor legislation we should have immediately. I also
urged that the
recommended that Congress, provide for a commission, to be made up of
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representatives of the Congress, the public, labor and management, to
study the entire field of labor-management relations and to suggest what
additional laws we should have.
I believe that my proposals were accepted by the great majority
of our people as fair and just.
If the Congress had accepted those recommendations, we would
have today the basis for improved labor-management relations. I would
have gladly/signed a labor bill if it had taken us in the right direc-
tion of stable, peaceful labor relations - even though it might not have
been drawn up exactly as I wished.
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