Word: durkin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...labor beat, Lahey has often scooped stay-at-home competitors with such stories as his disclosure in 1953 that the A.F.L.'s Martin Durkin was resigning as Eisenhower's first Labor Secretary...
Died. Martin P. Durkin, 61, Secretary of Labor (Jan. 21 to Sept. 10. 1953) and only Democrat in the Eisenhower Cabinet, president of the A.F.L. Plumbers and Pipe Fitters union since 1943; after long illness following brain surgery; in Washington...
...referring to the biggest men in labor and management by their first names. The head of the AF of L is "George," the Secretary of Labor "Jim." At a beer party he threw for his class, one student asked him about the recent resignation of Secretary of Labor Martin Durkin...
...excesses of organized labor. But Co-Author Bob Taft thought the act far from perfect, later suggested more than a dozen amendments. Last year congressional committees took 7,000 pages of testimony on proposed changes in the 30-page act; none was made, and Secretary of Labor Martin Durkin resigned in a huff as a result. Now President Eisenhower has suggested 15 amendments and the political storm is blowing again...
These are a few of the broad problems to be met in revising the Taft-Hartley law; the very number of Mr. Durkin's amendments shows that many smaller issues are unsettled. He would, for example, reduce a required 60-day notice-of-contract-termination clause in the act to thirty. But here again, it is not enough to effect these changes without considering the many associated questions. In this instance, the penalty for violating the sixty-day notice requirement is one-sided: stringent on laber, not so harsh on management. While the length of notification is being considered, penalties...