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...issue, he is in open disagreement with Harry Truman. He believes there is some good in the Taft-Hartley Act, thinks it should be amended, not repealed...
...position of impartiality to rush to the side of labor, and in so doing, he tumbled into a constitutional crisis. He displayed an uncanny talent for demanding negotiations when they had no chance to succeed, for upsetting negotiations when the prospects were promising. He refused to use the Taft-Hartley law. The net result was a seven-month cataclysm in U.S. life, which already has had these measurable effects: ¶ The nation has lost 19 million tons of steel, has been forced to shut down ammunition plants, airplane assembly lines and parts plants, will suffer a delay in schedules...
Richard Russell decreased his slim chance last week when, in an obvious bid for labor support, he declared that the Taft-Hartley Act "must be supplanted by new legislation." The Virginia state convention, which had been considered certain to support him, reacted against his Taft-Hartley statement by sending an uninstructed delegation...
Hands Off. No one seemed to be doing much of anything to end the strike. The major companies and the union were not meeting, and had no plans to meet. President Truman still adamantly refused to use the Taft-Hartley law since he was determined to keep the Administration on the side of the strikers. Three months ago, he said the emergency was so great that he must seize the steel companies; now he was as relaxed as an idler in a Missouri crossroads store...
Steelmen and steelworkers made little progress toward ending the strike. President Truman, determined not to invoke the Taft-Hartley law, had called Government mediators out of the negotiations. Both sides were still deadlocked over Phil Murray's insistence on the union shop, although there were some signs that management's opposition to this was cracking. Bethlehem Steel, which had been the first to break management's front in the 1949 strike, offered, then hastily withdrew, an informal compromise on the issue...