Taft-Hartley was passed about three years earlier, in 1947. The Labor Management Relations Act restricts the activities and power of labor unions. It was vetoed by Harry Truman, but still enacted into law. And then Truman, while never dressed like our cartoon Right Wing Politician, used it himself a dozen times or so.

The criticism was that it limited union power. The law is still in effect today.

NAM stands for National Association of Manufacturers, and the general implication here is that they, and the Chamber of Commerce, were telling the politician what to say. There's no context on the rest of the page to tell me why this was pasted in the book, or what my grandfather would have thought about it.

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