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...emergency procedure of the twelve-year-old Taft-Hartley Act is constitutional. It does not, as the union contended, unconstitutionally require the courts to "legislate" policy on a strike. "The statute does recognize certain rights in the public to have unimpeded for a time production in industries vital to the national health or safety," ruled the court...
...days will serve the public purpose only if they become the cooling-off period envisioned in the law. Under terms of the law, federal mediators must lead the negotiators back to the table, but they cannot make them bargain. After 60 days the President's Board of Inquiry must report on progress and specify management's last offer. Within 15 days-at least five days before the injunction expires-the National Labor Relations Board must take a secret ballot among workers to see whether they will accept the offer...
...Gallup pulse reading, reported this week, provided Republicans with more solid occupational therapy, gave Democrats something to ponder. Last May the pollsters divided the U.S. public into five occupational groups, put the question to each: "Which political party do you think serves the interest of your group best?" The May answers showed a dramatic drop in Republican popularity, most notably a 9% decline among business and professional people. When Gallup popped the same question this month, he got a surprising response. Fifteen percent of the unskilled workers (against 11% in May), 16% of the skilled workers...
...York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller quivered on his launching pad, preparing to take off this week on a breathtaking, "nonpolitical" swoosh through California and three other Western states, will make 35 public appearances in four days. In Albany, meanwhile, Rocky was assembling a high-octane, presidential-type staff of experts. In as his chief military adviser (officially his executive assistant in Albany) was General (ret.) Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Schuyler, most recently Chief of Staff to NATO Chief General Lauris Norstad. For his growing platoon of speechwriters, Rockefeller signed on Hugh Morrow, onetime Washington correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post...
...York's Mayor Robert Wagner, who had just suffered a blow at home with the defeat of a school-bond proposal, was just as willing to take second place on the Democratic ticket: "Anyone who says he isn't interested would be kidding himself and kidding the public...