Taft-Hartley Act - Milestone Documents

Taft-Hartley Act

( 1947 )

Glossary

  • conciliation production of compromise
  • contemporaneously at the same time
  • discretion the power to decide based on one’s own judgment
  • enjoin to prohibit or restrain by an injunction
  • injunction a writ issued by a court requiring or preventing a specified act
  • irreparable not repairable; not able to be made good
  • mediation intervention to promote a settlement between conflicting parties
  • mitigate lessen
  • preponderance superior in influence
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Robert A. Taft (Library of Congress)

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