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...third time since he assumed office-and for the second time against the rampaging International Longshoremen's Association-Dwight Eisenhower last week invoked the national-emergency provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act to stop a strike in the interests of the "national health and safety." In three fast-moving days the President 1) ordered a specially convened board of inquiry to look into the facts behind the East and Gulf Coast strike (TIME, Nov. 26) by the I.L.A. against the New York Shipping Association; 2) asked for and got a Federal Court injunction ordering the 60,000 strikers back...
...further declared that President Eisenhower has "betrayed" labor by failing to make good on his promise to secure amendment of the Taft-Hartley Act. Although Eisenhower still admits the need for these changes, Reuther said, he has done nothing about it because he is merely a front for a "small group of conservative die-hards who still call all the shots in the Republican Party...
...informal debate before 50 members of the International Relations Club of the Newton College of the Sacred Heart, the two club presidents first concentrated their discussion on the topics of the farm slump, small business failures, the Taft-Hartley Law, and natural resources "giveaways." In the debate on foreign policy and the question period that followed, however, discussion centered around the possibility of stopping H-bomb tests exposions...
...Patriot-Painter Charles Wilson Peale (TIME, July 4, 1955), borrowed the glowing technique developed by the Dutch masters. His ready-for-eating apple, raisins and sugar-coated cake, by their closely observed rendering bring a glow of appreciation and recognition. Maine's late great eccentric, Marsden Hartley (1878-1943), with Flowers from Claire Spencer's Garden in a white crockery pitcher testified to his love for Maine more intimately and no less glowingly than with the blunt, powerful landscapes he did of Mt. Katahdin...
Labor. Both support the right to organize, full employment, federal aid for depressed areas. At issue: the Democrats advocate outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act and a return to something more like the Wagner Act; the Republicans suggest modification and improvement of Taft-Hartley. The Democrats also propose an increase in the national minimum wage from $1 to $1.25 an hour; the Republicans mention no increase, but want to extend the minimum-wage-law protection to more workers...