What would Harry Truman do now? grasswire

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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Thu Mar-10-11 12:47 PM
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What would Harry Truman do now?
   
He seems to be the most recent Democrat who had the courage to stand up and fight.

What would he do this week as the attacks on the American workers increase?

For that matter, what would FDR do this week, in this situation?

Someone needs to get off the farm. You lost. Deal with it.

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[GOBUCKS]

FDR and Harry Truman would both be astonished and appalled at the idea of state or federal workers having unions or negotiating contracts. 

[Chris_]

Curious.  What WOULD Truman do?

Even Truman, whose main constituency was labor, felt compelled to act. Starting in late 1945, he seized numerous businesses and forced strikers back to work by executive order. Occasionally, labor defied him. On May 23, 1946, railroad workers ignored a presidential seizure order and walked off the job. The nation, which depended on trains for the transportation of both passengers and commercial products, ground to a halt. A desperate Truman addressed Congress on May 25, asking permission to draft striking railroad workers into the military to force them back to work.

PBS

[franksolich]

Curious.  What WOULD Truman do?
PBS

Yeah, that was the classic case, where Harry Truman wanted to conscript railway workers into the military, and have them get back to work. 

A creative idea there.

Of course, it never came to that, as the unions caved.

[Chris_]

For that matter, what would FDR do this week, in this situation?

"The process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service," Roosevelt wrote in 1937 to the National Federation of Federal Employees. Yes, public workers may demand fair treatment, wrote Roosevelt. But, he wrote, "I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place" in the public sector. "A strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government."

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

They're not very good students of history.  No wonder they keep trying to re-write it... you can never be wrong if the answers to the questions keep changing.

[Ralph Wiggum]

I think the DUmmies are implying very subtly that perhaps President 0bama should bomb Wisconsin.