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...will meet with representatives of your industry group . . . February 1 to negotiate in good faith . . ." The date he set had a purpose behind it too-it is the very day that the U.M.W. had been ordered to appear in Washington's district court to answer General Counsel Robert Denham of the National Labor Relations Board, who wants a court injunction against John L.'s three-day week...
Whether or not they intended it so, the operators had thus given John Lewis a timely assist. His willingness to negotiate weakened Denham's case against his union. It gave Lewis something to report to the 91,000 soft-coal miners who, in their eagerness for a full strike or a new mine contract, were mutinying against him (TIME, Jan. 30). It also gave Big John a chance to talk business in the climate he likes best. After seven months of his production-throttling three-day week, Lewis had equalized his bargaining position. That is, he had whittled...
...Washington, portly Robert Denham, general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, tried to stop John L. Lewis with the Taft-Hartley Act. He went to court at the urging of the operators to get a court order against the three-day week. He got little thanks for it. As a West Virginia miner said: "Paper don't cut coal." Said Harry Truman: Denham is on his own. Said Robert Taft: "We didn't intend to give anyone the right to send people back to work-except when there's a national emergency-when no contract exists...
UNTRIANSULATED STARS, Letters of Edwin Arlington Robinson to Harry de Forest Smith (348 pp.)-Edited by Denham Sutcliffe-Harvard University...
Said NLRB's tough general counsel, Robert N. Denham: if Remington Rand signs a new contract with U.E., it does so at "its own peril." NLRB will not help to enforce it. Stormed U.E.'s Fitzgerald: "This is a call to arms to all employers to break contracts...