Up until Labor Day it was not so much what Adlai Stevenson said as the way he said it. At Detroit this week the Democratic candidate formally opened his campaign with a speech that contained more meat than sauce. He stepped briskly into the hot fight over the Taft-Hartley law, demanded its repeal and called for a new law based on "five general principles."
One: "The law must accept labor unions ... as the responsible representatives of their members' interests." He noted with approval that Congress last year repealed the provision for Government-run votes among employees before a union shop could be...