Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some Congressmen and most businessmen were still peering suspiciously at the men President Harry Truman had picked to administer the Taft-Hartley Act. His interim appointees to the expanded National Labor Relations Board, they grumbled, had loaded the whole board in labor's favor. But the choice Harry Truman made last week to head the autonomous Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service was one that both business and labor could applaud. The man was Canadian-born Cyrus S. Ching, a towering (6 ft. 7 in.) pipe-smoking oldster (71) with 28 years of experience in labor relations...
Labor's offensive against the Taft-Hartley Act hit Detroit. John L. Lewis had won one battle with a coal contract which had laid a few detours around the new law (TIME, July 21). Last week the C.I.O.'s lusty, restive United Automobile Workers opened up on the Ford Motor Co. U.A.W. made Ford a test case in a fight to get unions out from under any responsibility for wildcat strikes. U.A.W. wanted a clause in its contract specifically releasing the union from the law's provisions that unions may be held financially responsible in court actions...
...Battles. On the Taft-Hartley Act: "Polls show that a great majority of labor itself is in favor of nearly every reform contained...
Muddling Through. To cope with the problem, BOAC last month sent in a new team. In as chairman, replacing Lord Knollys (rhymes with coals), went 68-year-old Sir Harold Hartley, famed chemist and transportation expert who had managed Britain's aviation gasoline program in World War II. As his managing director, Sir Harold got young (34), handsome Whitney Straight,* ex-R.A.F. pilot and commodore in Britain's Transport Command. Born in the U.S., Straight has lived in England since he was 13. He became a British subject and in his 20s he founded the Straight Corp...
With some disapproving sniffs here & there, the Senate Labor Committee last week approved the men whom Harry Truman had picked to help administer the Taft-Hartley Act. For the two new $12,000-a-year jobs which the act set up on the expanded National Labor Relations Board, the President had nominated one New Deal Democrat and one Republican; for key job of general counsel he had named a quasi-Republican...