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Some of his chores were decidedly unpleasant. In his seven years of office, he had been forced only five times to call upon the Taft-Hartley law's injunctive machinery against strikes threatening the national interest. To him, the necessity of using Taft-Hartley could only result from the failure of collective-bargaining procedures, in which he deeply believes. Yet last week he had to invoke Taft-Hartley twice, once in the Eastern dock strike, again-and with more disappointment-in the marathon steel strike...
...Secretary Frederick Mueller. All listened quietly while Mitchell reported some bad news to the President: labor and management had made no progress toward settling the longest nationwide steel strike in U.S. history. That left only one thing to do: President Eisenhower set into motion the machinery of the Taft-Hartley law, aimed at halting the strike by injunction for 80 days to provide a cooling-off period. He named a three-man committee of labor experts to write the fact-finding report required by law (see box) before the injunction can be obtained...
Earlier in the week from California, the President had invoked Taft-Hartley in the East and Gulf Coasts dock strike that had idled some 70,000 workers. But to Dwight Eisenhower, the necessity of using Taft-Hartley in the steel strike was far more distressing, and he put his feelings into the announcement of his decision. Wrote the President: "I profoundly regret that the parties to the dispute have failed to resolve their differences through the preferred methods of free collective bargaining, even though every appropriate Government service was available to them in support of their efforts." The President pointed...
...failure of Mitchell's effort left the Administration no choice but to use its power under the Taft-Hartley law. It was a solution that pleased nobody. Dave McDonald vowed to fight the injunction proceedings in the courts, arguing that the steel strike has not yet endangered the national health or safety, the only basis on which the law permits an injunction to be issued. Industry had precious little to gain from the use of Taft-Hartley either; management could hardly expect to get topflight production out of the angry workers ordered back to their jobs...
...said Press Secretary James Hagerty, Ike "did most of the talking," and was "quite firm." Later that day, the President issued a statement hinting that if the two sides failed to reach agreement by the time he got back from his vacation in California, he would invoke the Taft-Hartley Act's provision calling for an 80-day back-to work period when a strike threatens to "imperil the national health or safety...