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Collective Bargaining. Until last year, the Taft-Hartley Act prevented private companies from joining with labor unions to offer legal insurance. Congress has now amended the law so that labor and management can both contribute to legal-insurance funds, as they have long been permitted to do with pension and health plans. As a result, Hugh Duffy, former chief counsel of the House Special Subcommittee on Labor, predicts: "Prepaid legal services will now be in the mainstream of collective bargaining." So far, some 25 labor unions have persuaded employers to help set up and contribute to legal insurance funds. Some...
...first six months in the Senate, Morse made more speeches than all the other freshmen combined. He started to take stands without regard I to party position or leadership preference. He backed President Truman when he vetoed the Taft-Hartley Act, when he seized the nation's steel mills in an effort to forestall a strike and when he fired General Douglas MacArthur. Though Morse fervently supported Dwight Eisenhower for the G.O.P. presidential nomination in 1952, he became disillusioned by Ike's cautious civil rights stand and by his choice of Richard Nixon as a running mate. Switching...
Robert L. Hartley, 36, may exert more influence on U.S. businessmen than any other journalist. He is editor of the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, an operation regarded as being separate from the rest of the paper. Born in Marshall, Minn., and educated at Iowa State and Wisconsin, Bartley became a Journal staffer in 1962. After ten years of reporting, writing editorials and turning out think pieces for the editorial page, he was tapped for his present post. The Journal's editorials generally reflect Bartley's economic conservatism but are less predictable than in previous years...
...Edward J. Hartley, president of Allegheny Ludlum Steel: Franklin J. Lunding, retired finance committee chairman of the Jewel Companies. Inc. grocery and food chain; and R. Stewart Rauch Jr., chairman of the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society...
...which had cost Britain $4.6 billion in lost production and unemployment payments. He also announced a nationwide freeze on residential rents. Labor's legislative priorities include old-age-pension increases, land-speculation curbs and repeal of the Tories' Industrial Relations Act, a law modeled on the Taft-Hartley Act that has antagonized both labor and management. All should prove relatively uncontroversial if not uniformly popular measures...