Word: taft-hartley
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...union men, while Democratic Presidents have chosen nonunion men. * When he selected his Secretary of Labor last December, Dwight Eisenhower tried the Republican way, named Martin Durkin, president of the A.F.L.'s plumbers and pipefitters union. It did not work. Durkin, angry because his proposals for amending the Taft-Hartley law had been stalled, quit last month...
...America. There was reportorial anger over the news leak on the Warren appointment (see PRESS). And the President in turn was angered when a reporter asked for his version of ex-Secretary of Labor Martin Durkin's contention that Eisenhower had agreed to 19 specific changes in the Taft-Hartley Act, and then run out on his word (TIME, Oct. 5). Said the President, jaw outthrust and eyes cold: he refused to speak of personalities publicly. To his knowledge, he had never broken an agreement with any associate in his life. If there was anyone there who had contrary...
...acute insight into the problems of labor and management. "Essentially the job was one of administrating the laws established by the Congress which affect labor. During the first two years of my span in the post I worked with the Wagner Act and spent the remaining six with the Taft-Hartley...
...sore and suspicious over the resignation of their fellow unionist, Pipefitter Martin Durkin, as Secretary of Labor. They preferred to believe that Durkin was speaking the truth when he said that the President had gone back on an explicit face-to-face promise to recommend 19 changes in the Taft-Hartley law. Addressing the convention, the ex-Secretary had spoken softly, even admiringly, of Eisenhower, but he had plainly implied that he considered Ike's denial of his accusation a lie. He cited three main points...
Eisenhower had promised labor some revision of the Taft-Hartley law, and his appointment of Durkin was a concrete example of his intention to keep that promise. Besides, Ike had come to like burly, earnest Martin Durkin. Sitting in on a White House discussion of Taft-Hartley, Ike had said: "I want you for your heart and brain, Martin, not for your political influence." But Taft-Hartley revision was not solely a matter of intentions, heart and brain. It was a matter of relative pressures working for specific changes in the law. The story of the pressures...