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...strike last Tuesday actually was a resumption of a nine-day walkout in November. That was interrupted under the Taft-Hartley law provision for an 80-day cooling off period...
...night, a squadron of Canberra bombers taxied down the runway of the R.A.F. base outside Nicosia. Their orders were to bomb the Inshass airfield outside Cairo. Suddenly one bomber slumped nose-down on the runway. Four minutes later, 24-year-old Pilot Dennis Raymond Kenyon faced Squadron Leader Norman Hartley. "What's the matter, Dennis?" Hartley demanded. "Did you push the wrong button?" Dennis Kenyon threw his helmet on the ground and burst into incoherent tears. Later he told Hartley that he had deliberately retracted his wheels because "I did not altogether approve of what we were doing...
James Paul Mitchell, 56, Secretary of Labor, took over in October 1953, when Union Leader Martin Durkin resigned in a dispute about Taft-Hartley law changes. Mitchell turned out to be the biggest sur prise in the Cabinet and is now rated its fastest comer. Despite 20 years as a labor-relations expert with the WPA, the War Department and New York department stores, he had neither a name on the national labor scene nor a reputation for political astuteness when Ike brought him over from the Pentagon (Assistant Secretary of Army for Manpower and Reserve Forces' Affairs). Since...
...Dorado, Ark. and the Oil Workers International Union, which called a strike to back up demands in 1952, when their long-term contract could be opened for modification. Though the union gave the required 60 days' notice, the company held that it violated the Taft-Hartley Act because the contract had merely been reopened, not terminated. The National Labor Relations Board ruled in favor of the union, but a circuit court overruled NLRB. By ruling that the term "expiration date" can refer to the time when a contract reopens as well as to when it terminates, the Supreme Court...
...This question is of major importance in the negotiation and administration of hundreds of collective-bargaining agreements throughout the country." So said Chief Justice Earl Warren last week, as the U.S. Supreme Court settled the question of whether the Taft-Hartley Act bars all strikes for the duration of a contract. The court, in the unanimous opinion written by Justice Warren, held that unions can strike to back up demands made under reopener clauses in long-term con tracts even though the contract has not expired-provided that they give the 60-day notice required by Taft-Hartley...