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...116th day of the longest nationwide steel strike in U.S. history, the Supreme Court upheld the emergency procedure of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act as "a public remedy in times of emergency," gave force to a Taft-Hartley injunction ordering 500,000 steelworkers back to the ore mines, furnaces and mills for 80 days. The court's 8-to-1 decision (Justice William O. Douglas dissenting) cut tersely through the United Steelworkers' lengthy legal challenge, which had already won more than two weeks' delay in the courts. In upholding the injunction handed down by the U.S. District...
...emergency procedure of the twelve-year-old Taft-Hartley Act is constitutional. It does not, as the union contended, unconstitutionally require the courts to "legislate" policy on a strike. "The statute does recognize certain rights in the public to have unimpeded for a time production in industries vital to the national health or safety," ruled the court...
...steel strike satisfies the Taft-Hartley requirement for evident danger to "the national health or safety" before an injunction may be issued. Contrary to union argument, said the court, the Government does not have to prove something as vague as "damage to national health," because the steel strike in fact imperils "national safety" by specific effects upon defense projects...
...union contention that the U.S. could easily satisfy its defense needs by channeling requirements to a few reopened mills, the court replied that it is not the job of the U.S., before applying for a Taft-Hartley injunction, to reorganize "the affected industry...
These are amendments to the 12-year-old Taft-Hartley law. In general, they amplify and extend into new areas the law's restrictions