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...LABOR EXPERT, reluctantly invoking the Taft-Hartley Act in the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. strike (see U.S. BUSINESS...
Last Offer. As production ground to a near standstill last week on Lockheed's vital output of Polaris missiles, antisubmarine planes and Agena space boosters, the Administration felt obliged to change its tune. Reluctantly, President Kennedy invoked the Taft-Hartley law, aiming at a court injunction that would end the strike for an 80-day "cooling-off" period. At that, the union hastily called off the strike-temporarily...
...Meddling. Upon taking over as state chairman, Bliss got a massive registration drive under way, traveled about the state instilling into local Republican groups his gospel of organized enthusiasm. Result: in 1950, despite an intense and well-financed drive by organized labor to defeat the architect of the Taft-Hartley Act, Senator Robert A. Taft won reelection by a smashing margin, and the G.O.P. gained four additional House seats...
Loyal & Dependable. Today, Board Chairman McKinley and President Herbert W. Hartley run a school jammed to capacity with 1,700 students (one of them a girl). More than 75% are non-Californians, drawn from the 49 other states and 40 foreign countries. Some aim for a two-year technological diploma, but nearly all end up working for a full B.S. degree in engineering. Four-fifths finish in three years, getting along on vacations of four weeks a year. Says McKinley: "We teach these boys what it is to do eight hours of work, to be loyal to an employer...
This stark conclusion was reached by five commission members appointed by Prime Minister Macmillan to examine a rising mortality rate in the British press. During almost two years of investigation, the commission, headed by Sir Hartley Shawcross, onetime Attorney General in the postwar Labor government, heard witnesses from both labor and management -although not all of the commission's summonses were obeyed. "We are regretfully forced to conclude," said the report, in noting that the paper workers' and lithographers' unions declined to cooperate with the inquiry, "that the real reason why each of them refused was fear...