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...force a settlement. Officially, White House policy last week was one of hands off. "We will not be encouraging ratification or campaigning for it," declared Labor Secretary Ray Marshall.* "The choice is theirs." Nevertheless, the White House increased the pressure for an agreement by preparing to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act. In the past the miners defied Taft-Hartley, and their acquiescence now is uncertain. But the President selected a board of inquiry to determine if a national emergency existed. Affidavits were drawn up certifying that the strike posed a threat to national health and safety, and plans were reviewed...
...President had decided by late Thursday afternoon that he would act on Friday night if the miners and operators had not reached a solution. He had instructed Domestic Affairs Adviser Stuart Eizenstat to prepare a plan of action. Eizenstat recommended that Carter invoke the Taft-Hartley Act, imposing an 80-day back-to-work injunction on the miners, and request congressional authorization to seize the coal mines...
Those measures, as Carter well knew, could have made matters worse. By using the Taft-Hartley Act, he could obtain an 80-day back-to-work injunction against the miners, but they might well choose to ignore the ruling. Seizure of the coal mines, on the other hand, would put pressure on mineowners, but it might have taken a month to get the necessary legislation through Congress...
Spurred on by the spectacular goaltending of Hartley Rogers, Harvard came back from a 2-0 deficit to tally three second-period goals that put Bowdoin at a 4-2 disadvantage midway through the period, with Yeomalakis, returning from a thumb injury, assisting on two of the goals...
...believe they hold a strategic advantage because coal supplies are fast falling short, particularly in the Middle West. All over that region utilities have been cutting back services. President Carter will try his powers of persuasion on the miners and operators. He has reason not to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act. As Robert Little, who came from Harlan County, Ky., to demonstrate, put it: "They can make us go back and work-but at what rate of speed? I can work awful slow...