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Acting under the Taft-Hartley Act, the President appointed a fact-finding board. It was composed of Federal Judge Sherman ("Shay") Minton, onetime New Dealing Senator from Indiana; Mark Ethridge, liberal publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal, and Dr. George W. Taylor, professor of labor relations at the Wharton School of Finance, onetime chief of the War Labor Board. It was a board which could hardly be called prejudiced against labor. Taylor was a veteran of many coal disputes...
...board summoned the operators and John Lewis. The operators obediently appeared. But not John. Until he did, the Taft-Hartley machinery was stalled. Cunning John, who hates the Taft-Hartley Act, knew that the longer he delayed, the more the nation's coal stockpile would dwindle, the more effective his bargaining position would be. Meanwhile the nation could whistle for its coal, the miners could whistle for their wages...
...hours before a midnight strike deadline, the Government took a step under Taft-Hartley. For the first time in the history of the act it slapped down an injunction. The injunction kept the 800 workers at their jobs, forbade Carbide & Carbon from changing the conditions of the old contract. The length of the injunction: 80 days. Meanwhile the Government will look for some way to mend the first labor fission in the atomic world...
...paralysis spread, the Administration considered the next move: using the emergency machinery ultimately to get an injunction, force Lewis to keep the mines operating until every possible solution had been explored. This machinery was provided by the Taft-Hartley Act, which Harry Truman once denounced as "cumbersome and ineffective ... a clear threat to the successful working of our democratic society...
Jimmy Petrillo was afraid of being thrown and hog-tied by the Taft-Hartley Act. As a result the radio networks found that Jimmy was just about the nicest fellow who had ever picked up a fountain pen. He gave up his plan of making their key stations hire more musicians. He agreed not to ask for a pay increase. He decided, after three years of stubborn resistance, to let union musicians appear on television programs. When he signed a new three-year contract last week, NBC's Vice President Frank Mullen couldn't resist giving...