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Martin Patrick Durkin...
...Chicago, members of Local 130 of the A.F.L. Journeymen Plumbers and Steamfitters Union voted to walk out over a 15? wage demand. Management announced that it would appeal the strike decision to the union's past president: Secretary of Labor, Martin Durkin...
Labor. Before election last November labor-union leaders refused to think of anything less than outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley law. The captains of industry were generally at the other pole. By last week, Secretary of Labor Martin Durkin had some of the smartest and toughest eggs in labor and industry (e.g., the United Mine Workers' John L. Lewis, the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther, Big Coal's Harry Moses, Big Steel's Ben Moreell) ready to sit down together to study amendments. The Administration hoped-perhaps too optimistically-to get agreement on labor policy...
...Martin Durkin...
...member advisory group will start work Monday in closed sessions with Durkin. Durkin stated he hopes that desired changes will be worked out without stirring up a battle between labor and industry such as occurred when the law was enacted...