Furthermore, the major issue that revealed disagreements between the President and the Congress was the regulation of the labor relations. Making the transition to the civilian production the government failed to prevent the economic crisis. After the war, public procurement declined, and demand for human resources decreased that caused reduce of wages and increase of unemployment level. It resulted in the wave of strikes, especially in 1946. Trying to meet entrepreneurs’ requirements the Congress passed in 1947 the Labor Management Relations Act, which became known as the Taft-Hartley Act. It significantly limited the possibilities of strikes and put trade union activities under the strict government control. Understanding that the Act threatened
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The major collision between Truman and the Supreme Court occurred in 1952, during the Korean War. The US steel mills had been closed, then, because of strikes, what resulted in decrease of weapons and other military items production. In his turn, Harry Truman ordered to seize the mills in the government ownership. However, the Supreme Court announced President’s decision unconstitutional (Memoirs 470). Truman’s seizure of the steel mills was disputed on the basis of the constitutional provisions, and the Supreme Court by six votes against three delivered a judgment not in favor of the President. The significant matter was that among four court members, appointed by Truman, two of them, Clark and Burton, voted against him. Thus, Truman’s expectations of the judicial support in his tensions with the Congress were not …show more content…
It became known as the Marshall Plan named after its initiator, the Secretary of State George Marshall. It contained the economic means for achieving political goals. However, in the US Congress the Plan faced stronger opposition than the Truman Doctrine since it suggested much more assignations. Nevertheless, in April 1948 when the Congress adopted the Economic Cooperation Act, which included a four-year program of economic assistance to Europe, the Plan was launched (Memoirs 119). Alongside, as a precondition for granting aid, the Americans demanded to withdraw the Communists from the governments of those countries which signed the plan. As a result, by 1948 none of the Western European governments included communists. In accordance with the Marshall Plan in the years 1948-1951 the US provided the Western European countries with the financial assistance in the amount of approximately 17 billion dollars, which contributed to their post-war reconstruction (Memoirs 118). At the same time, the implementation of Marshall Plan strengthened the position of the American capital in Europe and provided the US companies with extensive sales markets. Only about twenty years later the Senate acknowledged publicly that the Marshall Plan created the foundation to the NATO, thus together with some economic tasks it had the political purpose.
The major collision between Truman and the Supreme Court occurred in 1952, during the Korean War. The US steel mills had been closed, then, because of strikes, what resulted in decrease of weapons and other military items production. In his turn, Harry Truman ordered to seize the mills in the government ownership. However, the Supreme Court announced President’s decision unconstitutional (Memoirs 470). Truman’s seizure of the steel mills was disputed on the basis of the constitutional provisions, and the Supreme Court by six votes against three delivered a judgment not in favor of the President. The significant matter was that among four court members, appointed by Truman, two of them, Clark and Burton, voted against him. Thus, Truman’s expectations of the judicial support in his tensions with the Congress were not …show more content…
It became known as the Marshall Plan named after its initiator, the Secretary of State George Marshall. It contained the economic means for achieving political goals. However, in the US Congress the Plan faced stronger opposition than the Truman Doctrine since it suggested much more assignations. Nevertheless, in April 1948 when the Congress adopted the Economic Cooperation Act, which included a four-year program of economic assistance to Europe, the Plan was launched (Memoirs 119). Alongside, as a precondition for granting aid, the Americans demanded to withdraw the Communists from the governments of those countries which signed the plan. As a result, by 1948 none of the Western European governments included communists. In accordance with the Marshall Plan in the years 1948-1951 the US provided the Western European countries with the financial assistance in the amount of approximately 17 billion dollars, which contributed to their post-war reconstruction (Memoirs 118). At the same time, the implementation of Marshall Plan strengthened the position of the American capital in Europe and provided the US companies with extensive sales markets. Only about twenty years later the Senate acknowledged publicly that the Marshall Plan created the foundation to the NATO, thus together with some economic tasks it had the political purpose.