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Fighting the back-to-work order issued by a lower court, union counsel Arthur J. Goldberg said that in enacting the Taft-Hartley law Congress "passed the buck to the Supreme Court to break strikes...
Goldberg contended there is no national emergency to warrant such drastic action, that there is no threat to national health and safety within the meaning of the law, that the injunction section of the Taft-Hartley law is unconstitutional...
Asked at his Augusta news conference whether he thought that the U.S.'s longest nationwide steel strike proved the inadequacy of the Taft-Hartley law, President Eisenhower replied that he did not "think Taft-Hartley is necessarily any cure for this thing. If we can't settle our economic differences by truly free economic bargaining without damaging seriously . . . the United States, then we have come to a pretty pass...
...steel strike moved well beyond its 100th day, it chugged inevitably toward some kind of settlement on two separate tracks. On one track was the Justice Department's petition for a Taft-Hartley injunction to return the strikers to the mills for 80 days. On the other track was a resumption of bargaining between the steel companies and the United Steelworkers in Pittsburgh, while pressures mounted for settlement. The strongest pressure on the Big Steelmen came from small and medium-sized steel firms impatient for a settlement. This week the West Coast's Edgar F. Kaiser, the most...
Ugly Impact. Early in the week the wheels of the Taft-Hartley law began rolling when the distinguished three-member fact-finding board reported bleakly to the President on its ten-day effort to mediate a settlement: "The board cannot point to any single issue of any consequence whatsoever upon which the parties are in agreement." Next morning Assistant Attorney General George Cochran Doub boarded an Air Force plane for Pittsburgh, steel capital, to argue the U.S.'s case for a Taft-Hartley injunction before District Judge Herbert P. Sorg...