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Secretary of Labor Martin P. Durkin yesterday named Sumner H. Slichter, professor of Economics, to a committee of top public, labor, and industrial figures to help draft administration proposals for changing the Taft-Hartley...
...chief Ike adviser on appointments. As would be expected from Brownell's character and wide knowledge, the appointments were good, but some of them were not handled with political astuteness. He let the appointments of Ohio's George Humphrey as Secretary of the Treasury and of Martin Durkin as Secretary of Labor be announced without a word of warning to Robert A. Taft, the senior Senator from Ohio and the ranking G.O.P. member of the Senate labor committee. These political sins of omission were graphically ascribed to petty resentment against Taft and to deep-dyed political strategy...
...Labor. A veteran trade unionist (he still belongs to Local 42 of the Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers, A.F.L.), stocky, forceful Mashburn has been active in Los Angeles labor leadership, was brought into the state government in 1951 by Governor Earl Warren. Unlike his new boss, Labor Secretary-Designate Durkin, Mashburn is a Republican...
...bluntly said what he thought, but he showed no sign of wanting to start an all-out feud. No one at the Eisenhower headquarters was inclined to get into an argument with him. Contrary to some speculation, there was no oversight and no deliberate affront in the way the Durkin appointment was handled. Taft was asked for recommendations, submitted some (including Connecticut's former Senator John A. Danaher). His suggestions were considered, and rejected. Ike thought that Durkin would give the Cabinet balance and implement the campaign promise that his administration would be "fair" to labor. The appointment...
Swing to Bridges. In Washington, hardly anyone thought that Taft would oppose confirmation of Durkin, and no one thought that the Senate would refuse to confirm him.* The Ohio Senator's colleagues in Congress failed to provide any choral background for his solo. Vermont's Senator George D. Aiken, who will rank next to Chairman Taft on the Labor Committee, thought it was "wise to recognize organized labor in the Cabinet." Several Taft-minded Senators, e.g., Kansas' Andrew Schoeppel, swung behind New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, rather than Taft, for Majority Leader...