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Labor. Before election last November labor-union leaders refused to think of anything less than outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley law. The captains of industry were generally at the other pole. By last week, Secretary of Labor Martin Durkin had some of the smartest and toughest eggs in labor and industry (e.g., the United Mine Workers' John L. Lewis, the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther, Big Coal's Harry Moses, Big Steel's Ben Moreell) ready to sit down together to study amendments. The Administration hoped-perhaps too optimistically-to get agreement on labor policy...
...last week with smiles on their faces and a firm legislative program in their hands. The program: 1) a bill (actually passed three days earlier) giving Dwight Eisenhower the same Government reorganization powers Harry Truman had, 2) appropriations, 3) statehood for Hawaii, 4) amendment of the Taft-Hartley law, 5) limited extension of controls on defense materials and in defense areas, 6) return of tidelands to the states, 7) renewal of reciprocal trade agreements, 8) simplification of customs, 9) extension of old-age aid survivors insurance to groups now excluded, 10) continued temporary aid to schools in critical areas...
Secretary of Labor Martin P. Durkin yesterday named Sumner H. Slichter, professor of Economics, to a committee of top public, labor, and industrial figures to help draft administration proposals for changing the Taft-Hartley...
...Repeal the law, abolish the agency, fire everybody in it, and start all over again," he expostulated. Denham pinned the failure of the Taft-Hartley Act not on the law itself, but on its administration. He said the basic principles of the act are sound, but its execution is poor...
...answer to the forum question, "What to do with Taft-Hartley," Cox recommended that the law be turned over for study to a commission made up of members of the House and Senate labor committees, and representatives of labor and management...