Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rogers, Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, Commerce 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...
INVOKING Taft-Hartley in the dock and steel strikes, President Eisenhower last week set in motion a device which, despite continuing criticism, has had better than fair success over the past twelve years. The law's aim is to ensure production for an 80-day "cooling-off period" in strikes or threatened strikes found to imperil the "national health or safety," thereby giving management and labor a chance to resume negotiations toward a new contract. How it works...
With some dissenting votes, the HYDC also passed a motion for merger with the Radcliffe Young Democratic Club. The merger must be passed as a petition by two-thirds of the Club's membership to become a reality...
Both sides, however, maintain enough votes to prevent the other from achieving the necessary two-thirds vote. The logical and most diplomatic action for the U.S. would be to switch its support to the compromise candidacy of Yugoslavia, an acceptable eastern European country. We should also support the motion of eight non-communist nations for the enlargement of the Security Council from eleven to eighteen members, thus preventing the recurrence of such a contest and reffecting the growth of the U.N. during the last fourteen years...
...Club's Executive Committee is expected to push for a motion that the HYDC start campaigning for the election of William S. Barnes, assistant Dean of the Law School, to the Cambridge School Committee, and for the re-election of Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, Cambridge City Councillor...