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...Ohio, where Robert A. Taft was sitting out the interregnum. After the last Cabinet post was filled, Senator Taft had something to say. Having slept soundly on his indignation, he wrote out next morning a statement denouncing the appointment of the A.F.L. Plumbers & Pipe Fitters' President Martin P. Durkin as Secretary of Labor. It was "incredible," said Taft, that the President-elect should appoint a man who "has always been a partisan Truman Democrat, who fought General Eisenhower's election and advocated repeal of the Taft-Hartley...
More than Durkin. There was more than objection to Durkin behind the statement. Bob Taft was miffed because 1) so many "Dewey Republicans" had advised Ike on appointments, 2) so many Taft Cabinet recommendations had been rejected and 3) the selection of his fellow Ohioan George Humphrey for Secretary of the Treasury had not been checked with him. When Taft's words hit the press wires, political reporters leaped to conclusions: the big battle in the Republican Party was on, Taft might lead a fight against confirmation of Durkin. This view was based on an underestimation of the power...
...this week Ike had rounded out his full Cabinet. The three final appointments: Michigan's Arthur Summerfield, chairman of the "Republican National Committee, to be Postmaster General; Boston's Sinclair Weeks, Republican finance chairman, to be Secretary of Commerce; President Martin Durkin of the A.F.L. Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Union to be Secretary of Labor (see THE NEW ADMINISTRATION...
MARTIN P. DURKIN, 58, president of the A.F.L. Plumbers & Pipe Fitters...
...discussion of "How Can We Mitigate Industrial Strikes" is billed for January 30. The Forum has invited Reuther, new head of the CIO; Fred Hartley, co-author of the Taft-Hartley Law; and Martin Durkin, newly-appointed Secretary of Labor. No replies have been received yet, however...