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James Paul Mitchell, 56, Secretary of Labor, took over in October 1953, when Union Leader Martin Durkin resigned in a dispute about Taft-Hartley law changes. Mitchell turned out to be the biggest sur prise in the Cabinet and is now rated its fastest comer. Despite 20 years as a labor-relations expert with the WPA, the War Department and New York department stores, he had neither a name on the national labor scene nor a reputation for political astuteness when Ike brought him over from the Pentagon (Assistant Secretary of Army for Manpower and Reserve Forces' Affairs). Since...
...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...