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...Warning. Formal mediation meetings will be resumed after Thanksgiving, but unionists feel that the companies' offer is not likely to be materially raised. If not accepted by the union leadership, the Taft-Hartley law requires submitting management's final offer to a secret-ballot membership vote between Jan. 5 and Jan. 26. After that, the union leadership could still order the men out on strike again, whether the vote was favorable...
...automakers and other heavy industry is that they will have to shut down again almost as soon as they get back to full production. Though a few companies whose business is in slack period, may be able to build up small stockpiles during; the 80-day Taft-Hartley injunction period, most companies will not be able to build up any appreciable supply. The pipelines are so clear that steel will be used as fast as it is delivered. If the strike is resumed after the injunction is ended, shortages will show up immediately...
...which to avoid it completely. Under terms of the Railway Labor Act, the government can delay the start of the strike a fair length of time; the President can invoke measures leading to an emergency negotiation board and can exert subtle pressures in other ways. The Taft-Hartley Act provides the final governmental check...
...contribute to his campaign) and was jailed. He defied the court that disqualified him as Governor, won his appeals but lost the G.O.P. 1936 primary, ran successfully as an independent. In the Senate, Maverick Langer excelled in filibusters, fought lend-lease, the U.N., NATO, the Marshall Plan, the Taft-Hartley bill and postwar draft...
Barely three hours after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Taft-Hartley steel injunction (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), workers were on their way back to the mills. In Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago and other steel centers across the U.S., the millwrights, pipe fitters and laborers moved in to repair and start up the equipment that stood idle through the 116 days of the longest industry-wide steel strike in history. How long would it take for the steel industry to get back into full-scale operation...