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Missouri-born Republican Robert N. Denham was named general counsel of the new National Labor Relations Board by President Truman yesterday. His job is clothed with sweeping powers under the Taft-Hartley labor...
Legislation which would repeal the Taft-Hartley Bill was introduced by 15 senators, including two Republicans, yesterday, sponsored primarily by Senators Pepper and Wagner...
There was not even any assurance that John Lewis would not strike anyhow. Final contract negotiations stalled over his insistence on clauses which would make it possible for the miners to exploit the loopholes in the Taft-Hartley Act. The operators insisted on legal language that would protect them against a charge of attempting to evade the law. When they found the formula, they signed. A few hours later, John L. Lewis' 200-man policy committee approved the agreement which would send the miners back to work...
...foremen who had struck, several hundred had already agreed with Ford and had returned to their jobs. F.A.A. had failed to get much sympathy from the C.I.O.-U.A.W., and the Taft-Hartley law will relieve industry of any obligation to bargain with supervisory employees. At week's end, the foremen still on strike meekly voted to go back to work. They sorrowfully admitted that F.A.A., which had existed chiefly by grace of the Ford contract, was about dead...
Harry Truman's duty was clear. As Chief Executive, he had to enforce the Taft-Hartley Labor Act, which he had vetoed and denounced as "unworkable," "burdensome" and "disruptive." Solemnly, last week, he pledged himself to see that the new law was "well and faithfully administered." He called on management and labor to exercise "patience and moderation." Said he: "Industrial strife at this critical time can result only in economic dislocation injurious...