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EUSTACE AND HILDA (736 pp.)-L. P. Hartley-British Book Centre...
...analyst's case book, there is something refreshing about this old-style trilogy (its component novels were published in the U.S. more than a decade ago, but this is the first U.S. publication of all three in a package). Most remarkable fact about this work: Novelist L. P.* Hartley manages to sustain interest in several essentially drab, dim characters over 736 closely printed pages...
...U.A.W. hustled the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, argued that the Taft-Hartley law gave the National Labor Relations Board sole jurisdiction, that chaos would result if local courts granted relief to non-strikers caught up in union battles with management...
...said Justice Harold H. Burton, writing the Supreme Court majority opinion (joined by Felix Frankfurter, Tom Clark, William Brennan, Charles Evans Whittaker and John Marshall Harlan). Even assuming that the Taft-Hartley Act permits the NLRB to assess unions for back pay in certain cases, that, said Burton, would not prevent a plaintiff from seeking full damages in state courts. To hold otherwise, he wrote, would "grant to unions a substantial immunity" from the consequences of illegal mass picketing or coercion...
...management relations legislative program today," said the President of the U.S., "can ignore the disclosures of corruption, racketeering and abuse of trust and power in the labor-management field." So saying Dwight Eisenhower last week sent Congress a labor message calling for the most drastic legislation since the Taft-Hartley law to safeguard "the rights of individual workers, the public and management and unions in labor-management relations...