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...LABOR EXPERT, reluctantly invoking the Taft-Hartley Act in the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. strike (see U.S. BUSINESS...
Last Offer. As production ground to a near standstill last week on Lockheed's vital output of Polaris missiles, antisubmarine planes and Agena space boosters, the Administration felt obliged to change its tune. Reluctantly, President Kennedy invoked the Taft-Hartley law, aiming at a court injunction that would end the strike for an 80-day "cooling-off" period. At that, the union hastily called off the strike-temporarily...
...week's end, the Administration still planned to press for an injunction, despite its unhappy recognition that the move would undercut the union's bargaining position. The Taft-Hartley Act provides that unless a contract is signed within the first 60 days of the cooling-off period, the workers must then vote on the company's last offer. Lockheed's last offer was to give its workers an average wage increase of 21? an hour between now and 1964-but no union shop. And the betting was that if this were put to a vote among...
Costly Meddling. Upon taking over as state chairman, Bliss got a massive registration drive under way, traveled about the state instilling into local Republican groups his gospel of organized enthusiasm. Result: in 1950, despite an intense and well-financed drive by organized labor to defeat the architect of the Taft-Hartley Act, Senator Robert A. Taft won reelection by a smashing margin, and the G.O.P. gained four additional House seats...
Died. Francis Higbee Case, 65, wispy, upright Republican U.S. Senator from South Dakota since 1951 (after 14 years in the House), known for his 1946 House labor bill demanding tighter controls on union bargaining, which though vetoed by President Truman, was the precursor of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act; of a heart attack; in Bethesda, Md. A conscientious lawmaker whose major interests were water conservation and development of the Missouri River basin. Case rocked the Senate by rising during a 1956 debate on a natural gas bill to make a speech implying that gas producers had attempted...