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Before his resignation, Secretary of Labor Durkin and representatives of labor and management had drawn up nineteen amendments to the Act. Though Durkin's suggestions are worthwhile, Eisenhower must not limit his consideration to them alone. A re-examination of the broad aims of the Taft-Hartley Act and how well it has served these aims is essential...
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...
...choosing their Secretaries of Labor, Republican Presidents have followed Woodrow Wilson's precedent by appointing union men, while Democratic Presidents have chosen nonunion men. * When he selected his Secretary of Labor last December, Dwight Eisenhower tried the Republican way, named Martin Durkin, president of the A.F.L.'s plumbers and pipefitters union. It did not work. Durkin, angry because his proposals for amending the Taft-Hartley law had been stalled, quit last month...
Last week President Eisenhower turned his back on the G.O.P. pattern. He appointed a nonunion man, James P. Mitchell, to succeed Durkin. Mitchell, on leave from his job as vice president in charge of personnel and service at Manhattan's Bloomingdale's, has been the Army's assistant secretary for manpower and reserve forces since last April. Big (6 ft., 205 Ibs.) Jim Mitchell has spent most of his life in labor relations, has ironed out serious labor and personnel problems at two of the nation's biggest department stores (see box). Said C.I.O. President Walter...
...suggestions of his brother Milton, after his five-week goodwill trip through Latin America. There was reportorial anger over the news leak on the Warren appointment (see PRESS). And the President in turn was angered when a reporter asked for his version of ex-Secretary of Labor Martin Durkin's contention that Eisenhower had agreed to 19 specific changes in the Taft-Hartley Act, and then run out on his word (TIME, Oct. 5). Said the President, jaw outthrust and eyes cold: he refused to speak of personalities publicly. To his knowledge, he had never broken an agreement with...