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...President took on an additional labor problem last week: he invoked the Taft-Hartley Act in order to halt a crippling two-month strike on the East and Gulf Coast docks. In October, he used the law to put longshoremen back to work on the West Coast...
...aims to bolster the U.S. trade balance, much of the nation's commerce with the world remains in the Limbo Phase, stalled by a devastating dock strike. First the West Coast was shuttered by a walkout in July; it ended at least temporarily when Nixon invoked the Taft-Hartley Act's 80-day cooling-off period Oct. 6, but many ports are still clogged with backed-up vessels. Then, in October, some East and Gulf Coast dock workers walked out. Last week that stoppage spread to all but seven fairly small ports in the South, stranding some...
...dispute over a New York provision for a guaranteed annual wage and by leadership tensions within the International Longshoremen's Association. Union President Thomas W. Gleason met with shipowners in Miami last week. No significant progress was reported, but President Nixon evidently remained reluctant to invoke Taft-Hartley on the East and Gulf coasts, preferring to give the disputants more time to work it out for themselves. Meanwhile, shippers who tried to avoid the dock mess in the U.S. by diverting their vessels to Canadian ports along the St. Lawrence face another peril. Winter weather will probably choke...
...first time in his presidency, Richard Nixon was moved to use the Taft-Hartley Act. Despite his longstanding reluctance to interfere in labor disputes, he sent Justice Department attorneys into federal court last week to stop the 98-day strike by the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union that had shut down every port on the West Coast. The economic impact gave him no choice. Citing the "irreparable injury" of the strike, Government lawyers were granted a temporary restraining order. This week the court will consider a permanent injunction that would impose an 80-day cooling...
...editing manages to underline the essential content of most scenes, there are too many unexplored ambiguities and unexplained ellipses in the film for it to make a satisfying whole. Leo throws spells, but we have no idea what they're aimed against. (After consulting a critique of L. P. Hartley, the novelist on whose book the screenplay is based, the chants seem wearisome conceits in both book and movie). A pivotal relationship, that of Marion and her mother, is barely drawn; and it is not clear what happened to Ted Burgess, though he probably committed suicide...