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That left Harry Truman no alternative. This week, with 372,200 now on strike, he invoked the machinery of the Taft-Hartley Act, a law which Harry Truman sometimes finds useful but also useful to hate. A three-man board of inquiry was ordered to make its report within seven days. An 80-day injunction was the next step. John L. Lewis had dared the President to do his worst: "To use the power of the state to drive men into the mines ... is involuntary servitude ... It is questionable whether one could postulate that such mass coercion would insure enthusiastic...
...fact-finding board is the first step in Taft-Hartley Law procedure in times of "national emergency." After the probers make their report, the government can ask for an 80-day injunction against a strike while negotiations are carried...
...Washington, portly Robert Denham, general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, tried to stop John L. Lewis with the Taft-Hartley Act. He went to court at the urging of the operators to get a court order against the three-day week. He got little thanks for it. As a West Virginia miner said: "Paper don't cut coal." Said Harry Truman: Denham is on his own. Said Robert Taft: "We didn't intend to give anyone the right to send people back to work-except when there's a national emergency-when no contract exists...
...minutes and produced only fragments of news. Reporters got headlines out of it only by accenting the negative: the President didn't think that John L. Lewis and his three-day-a-week miners had created a national emergency and he had no intention of invoking the Taft-Hartley Act against them. Both the President and the reporters seemed to be in a rush to get their chores done and their clothes changed for a more entertaining affair-the Democratic National Committee's annual whing-ding for Democratic Congressmen and Senators...
...possible snag to the orchestra's further progress was the Taft-Hartley Act provision forbidding the A.F.M. to administer its royalty fund itself. But the new fund administrator, Philadelphia Lawyer Samuel Rosenbaum, gave the Old Timers the go-ahead...