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Carter invokes Taft-Hartley, but the miners vow they won't obey...
Opposing them, in a classic confrontation that marked his first major domestic crisis, stood President Jimmy Carter and the forces of authority at his command. "My responsibility," Carter declared on national television as he invoked the Taft-Hartley Act, "is to protect the health and safety of the American public ... The law will be enforced...
...Taft-Hartley Act, last used in 1971 against the International Longshoremen's Association, requires the United Mine Workers to return to work by this Monday for an 80-day cooling-off period. To enforce the law, Carter has an array of weapons, ranging from White House oratory to U.S. marshals and federal troops. But though the President said that the miners were "patriotic citizens [who] will comply with the law," hardly a miner in the hills of Appalachia or the flatlands of the Midwest would admit a willingness to bow to Taft-Hartley, which the union has defied twice...
...addition to preparing for Taft-Hartley, the White House sounded out Congress on the prospects for legislation enabling the U.S. Government to take over the mines. Marshall held long talks with members of Congress from coal areas: Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd and Senator Randolph Jennings of West Virginia and Representative Carl Perkins of Kentucky. Support for seizure of the mines seemed shaky. It would be unpalatable to the operators, who had already given way under presidential pressure on the new contract, and might lose still more if the Government ran the mines. While the profits would still...
...would be useful if we had more options in the Taft-Hartley Act. I would like to get the miners back to work under conditions other than an old contract, especially if it's a three-year contract and prices have been rising substantially. In the current strike, the union's welfare and pension funds have also been depleted. If the miners are ordered back to work, they are likely to consider it to be unfair, and we have to worry about their response. That's the reason we developed the idea of federal seizure...