Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Taft-Hartley injunction in the steel dispute will not end the strike; it may do harm, in fact, by obscuring the issues involved with the false reassurance of renewed production. The steel strike--the longest industry-wide stoppage in the country's history--has intensified two issues: the more immediate one of responsibility in the particular conflict of labor and management, and the general degeneration of collective bargaining between two huge economic blocs...
...minutes later, wavy-haired United Steelworkers President David J. McDonald drifted in to talk sonorously to scribbling reporters. "We've engaged in another exercise of futility. Industry deliberately maneuvered and stalled and engaged in all kinds of fakery." Industry strategy, he charged, was to depend upon the Taft-Hartley law's 80-day injunction as "a bargaining tool" to drive strikers back into the mills...
...Difference. Both sides were waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold or reject the U.S. petition for a Taft-Hartley injunction suspending the strike for 80 days. But the McDonald v. industry exchange on the strike's 109th day revealed a crevasse too wide to be bridged by Taft-Hartley injunctions, or even by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service's summons for both sides to report to Washington this week for talks...
...back-to-work injunction handed down in Pittsburgh Oct. 21 by U.S. District Judge Herbert P. Sorg. Union Lawyer Arthur Goldberg, though losing a 2-to-1 decision appealing the case to the Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, won Supreme Court agreement to review his arguments that 1) Taft-Hartley injunction procedure is unconstitutional, and 2) in seeking the injunction on the ground of damage to "national health and safety," the U.S. had not proved that there was real damage. His delay tactics had won two extra weeks or more for the strike's effects to wear upon management...
Goldberg contended there is no national emergency to warrant such drastic action, that there is no threat to national health and safety within the meaning of the law, that the injunction section of the Taft-Hartley law is unconstitutional...