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...insight into the problems of labor and management. "Essentially the job was one of administrating the laws established by the Congress which affect labor. During the first two years of my span in the post I worked with the Wagner Act and spent the remaining six with the Taft-Hartley...
Durkin's resignation sprung from a dispute over changes in sections of the Tafe-Hartley law. Herzog and the four other members of the NLRB used that law in making over 10,000 decisions on specific labor issues over the past five years. Remaking about his opinion of the law, Herzog said, "If I had thought it was a slave labor law I wouldn't have stayed on six years to administrate it. On the other hand if I had thought that it was perfect, I wouldn't have testified before Congress this spring for changes...
...suspicious over the resignation of their fellow unionist, Pipefitter Martin Durkin, as Secretary of Labor. They preferred to believe that Durkin was speaking the truth when he said that the President had gone back on an explicit face-to-face promise to recommend 19 changes in the Taft-Hartley law. Addressing the convention, the ex-Secretary had spoken softly, even admiringly, of Eisenhower, but he had plainly implied that he considered Ike's denial of his accusation a lie. He cited three main points...
Eisenhower had promised labor some revision of the Taft-Hartley law, and his appointment of Durkin was a concrete example of his intention to keep that promise. Besides, Ike had come to like burly, earnest Martin Durkin. Sitting in on a White House discussion of Taft-Hartley, Ike had said: "I want you for your heart and brain, Martin, not for your political influence." But Taft-Hartley revision was not solely a matter of intentions, heart and brain. It was a matter of relative pressures working for specific changes in the law. The story of the pressures...
...August 1950, Russian-born Ben Gold, president of the Red-dominated International Fur and Leather Workers Union, publicly renounced his 30-year membership in the Communist Party. Soon after, he signed the non-Communist oath, which the Taft-Hartley Act requires of all labor leaders whose unions want the all-important services of the National Labor Relations Board. Last week a federal grand jury in Washington, convinced by the Justice Department that Gold's conversion was no more than skin-deep, indicted him on the charge that he had perjured himself by signing the NLRB affidavit. Had the grand...