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...from his Cabinet, and finally a moment of deep happiness were combined in one of Dwight Eisenhower's best and worst weeks. Flying overnight to Washington from his Denver vacation headquarters, Ike spent a busy nine hours in conference with top advisers, accepting the resignation of Labor Secretary Durkin, and attending funeral services for his old bridge partner, Chief Justice Fred Vinson...
When Martin Patrick Durkin resigned last week as Secretary of Labor, an old union colleague remarked: "Like any old steam fitter, he knew when the pressure got too high." The pressure had been building up for a long time in several boilers-including Martin Durkin...
Eisenhower had promised labor some revision of the Taft-Hartley law, and his appointment of Durkin was a concrete example of his intention to keep that promise. Besides, Ike had come to like burly, earnest Martin Durkin. Sitting in on a White House discussion of Taft-Hartley, Ike had said: "I want you for your heart and brain, Martin, not for your political influence." But Taft-Hartley revision was not solely a matter of intentions, heart and brain. It was a matter of relative pressures working for specific changes in the law. The story of the pressures...
...JUNE 16. Durkin indicated that he approved the list with one very small exception (on how explicitly the law should say that the closed shop would be permissible in the building trades...
...Olander backs out, Durkin will probably look for another businessman to fill the post. In any case, there is no longer a Labor Department vacancy waiting for the C.I.O. Of the C.I.O. brass, Durkin says hopefully: "They know I tried...