Photograph of Bubbles Williams, holding the sign, giving Carlos Kennedy information about the proposed Taft-Hartley Act. Her sign reads "Perfect Crime, Mr. Taft and Mr. Hartley." This photograph was published in "700 Reporter" the publication of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 700. Despite protests by labor unions throughout the nation, the Labor Management Relations Act (commonly known as the "Taft-Hartley Act") became law in 1947. The law posed numerous restraints on trade unions, including a well publicized clause requiring all union officers to sign oaths that they were not Communists. The law also banned mass picketing and secondary boycotts, abolished the union closed shop, and authorized employers to interfere in workers' attempts to join a union.
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