It was against the background of Cold War that the U.S. Congress introduced TaftHartley Bill. This was a typical antilabour act with deepset anticommunist ideology. The bill revised the 1935 Wagner Bill aiming to protect labour interests by adding articles to defend the existing interests of heads of big enterprises and ruling groups, causing grave causes and results. For instance, it, in an anticommunist disguise, violated the workers’ political and economic rights to organize strikes and hold collective talks, directly leading to internal separation of trade unions and weakening of worker force. In response to the situation, American workers and trade unions made a determined reaction, delivering strong protests against the introduction of the bill, which gave expression to the resisting spirit of American working class.

American legislation; TaftHartley Bill; Cold War; American trade unions