Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 8--A week old strike of dock workers for the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts was ended tonight by a federal court Taft-Hartley mandate. Union leaders immediately ordered 85,000 longshoremen back to piers from Maine to Texas. Waterfront activity was expected to return to normal by today...
With President Eisenhower apparently about to invoke the injunction provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act in the national steel strike the CRIMSON questioned three professors in the Department of Economics for their opinions on the issue...
Dunlop expressed the same concern, declaring that the Taft-Hartley machinery was ineffective in encouraging settlement because it eliminates the "uncertainty" necessary for bargaining and because the machinery does not provide for the government board to make recommendations. As a result, negotiations are carried on in a vacuum. He pointed out that in the airline and railroad industries, emergency boards do make recommendations in labor disputes...
Unless there is a quick change in the situation, it is expected President Eisenhower will invoke the Taft-Hartley act to get the 500,000 strikers back in the mills for an 80-day cooling off period...
...there is no progress, it seemed likely Eisenhower would move to stop the strike for 80 days anyway, by invoking emergency provisions of the Taft-Hartley...