ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to examine labor and management lobbying and campaign efforts in some detail with respect to both money spent and results obtained. It outlines federal attempts to regulate lobbying activity and to establish reporting requirements through the 1946 Regulation of Lobbying Act. The chapter focuses on lobby expenditures, election activities and indirect lobbying. It examines organized labor’s political efforts and explains activities of the management community before summarizing the results of the postwar labor management political scene. It presents a more detailed analysis of business to improve its legislative “batting average” through campaign activity during the postwar period. The chapter provides a detailed analysis of the political activities of both labor and management groups. This analysis has been based on the reported lobby spending and campaign activities and the results achieved by these groups during the post World War II period.
