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...Taft-Hartley Act became the labor law of the land last week. It was something like the day Prohibition came into being. Nobody knew for sure what it might bring, but almost everybody was sure that some terrific headaches would follow. Unionists greeted the start of the new era in labor-management relations with defiance and derision; at C.I.O. and A.F.L. headquarters in Washington the morning greeting was "Happy Taft-Hartley Day." Even among the law's proponents, few were happy about...
...defiance of the Act and its boycotting of the NLRB promised little for the NLRB to do in the immediate future, unless Bob Denham forced some action. Nobody else, particularly employers, seemed to want to get tough. In fact, just the opposite was the case. In advance of Taft-Hartley Day last week, many employers helped unions to beat the law's deadline and to evade some of its provisions...
...also dodged one potential political hot spot by turning down a speaking date before an expected 200,000 A.F.L. and C.I.O. members at a Chicago Labor Day celebration. Labor would expect him to blast the Taft-Hartley Act, but he could hardly do that to labor's satisfaction on a law he was now duty-bound to administer...
Some Congressmen and most businessmen were still peering suspiciously at the men President Harry Truman had picked to administer the Taft-Hartley Act. His interim appointees to the expanded National Labor Relations Board, they grumbled, had loaded the whole board in labor's favor. But the choice Harry Truman made last week to head the autonomous Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service was one that both business and labor could applaud. The man was Canadian-born Cyrus S. Ching, a towering (6 ft. 7 in.) pipe-smoking oldster (71) with 28 years of experience in labor relations...
Signs of Peace? When he takes over his new job next fortnight, Cy Ching will have the chance to give that formula its most searching test. In labor's determined campaign to bypass or discredit the Taft-Hartley Act,* there were only faint signs of peace last week...