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...question, Erhard took his political life in his hands by intervening personally in West Germany's biggest postwar strike, in which 400,000 metalworkers were off the job. Forcing a resumption of negotiations, he frightened labor leaders with threats of en actment of a German version of the Taft-Hartley law, then turned on management and extracted a substantial wage boost for the workers, though not nearly so much as labor was demanding. Similarly, he stepped in to break the deadlock between the U.S. and France during the Geneva talks on Common Market tariffs last spring...
Painful Alternatives. President Kennedy has no direct power to halt a railroad strike. He has exhausted all the procedures of delay provided by the Railway Labor Act. The Taft-Hartley Act, with its provision for an 80-day injunction against a strike, does not apply to the railroads. The President cannot ask the companies to delay once again the effective date of the work-rules revisions, because last time he promised the railroad representatives that he would not in any event ask for any more delays...
Among them: the Federal Firearms Act, the Atomic Energy Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Automobile Information Disclosure Act, the Communications Acts, the Federal Coal Mine Safety Act, the False Branding or Marking Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act, the Taft-Hartley Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, the Plant Quarantine Act and the Securities Exchange...
...everyone approves of the way Tony does business. A federal grand jury has charged that he violated the Taft-Hartley Act by living rent free in a $26,000 home provided by a trucking firm. Nor was there complete agreement on Tony's raise. At the meeting-attended by no more than 400 of the local's 14,000 members-40 Teamsters were against Tony in a stand-up vote. One challenged him to submit the raise to a secret ballot of all members. In retrospect, Tony himself seemed to be having second thoughts about whether he should...
...past, though, the Administration's role has largely been that of friendly mediator, suggesting solutions and helping two dissident parties inch toward compromise. This time was different. Neither a Taft-Hartley injunction nor a platoon of regular federal mediators did any good. So Kennedy named a three-man mediation board, headed by labor-leaning Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon, and threatened the strikers and shippers with congressional intervention if they did not go along with the final terms of the board. It was practically compulsory arbitration. As Senator Morse put it: "Take it or leave...