Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue. President Nixon, his chin outthrust, answered the question with one firm word-no-at a press conference in November. But with an end to the war in sight and an all-volunteer Army on the near horizon, the topic is gaining currency. Ohio's Republican Senator Robert Taft Jr., a Republican with impeccable credentials, went so far last month as to introduce a bill to grant amnesty to draft resisters-with the stiff provision that it be coupled with three years in compensatory military or civilian federal service...
...year history of the Taft-Hartley Act, the Federal Government has sought 80 day cooling-off periods in 28 major labor disputes, pleading that "national health and safety" required an end to the strikes. The Government was never refused. During the current dock strike, the Attorney General contended that the failure of 200 Chicago longshoremen to load $75 million worth of corn and soybeans for export imperiled the national economy. Federal Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz found the Government's case for an injunction "far less reasoned" than required. "Some harm or threat of injury is regrettably a natural, indispensable...
...President took on an additional labor problem last week: he invoked the Taft-Hartley Act in order to halt a crippling two-month strike on the East and Gulf Coast docks. In October, he used the law to put longshoremen back to work on the West Coast...
...Policy aims to bolster the U.S. trade balance, much of the nation's commerce with the world remains in the Limbo Phase, stalled by a devastating dock strike. First the West Coast was shuttered by a walkout in July; it ended at least temporarily when Nixon invoked the Taft-Hartley Act's 80-day cooling-off period Oct. 6, but many ports are still clogged with backed-up vessels. Then, in October, some East and Gulf Coast dock workers walked out. Last week that stoppage spread to all but seven fairly small ports in the South, stranding some...
...dispute over a New York provision for a guaranteed annual wage and by leadership tensions within the International Longshoremen's Association. Union President Thomas W. Gleason met with shipowners in Miami last week. No significant progress was reported, but President Nixon evidently remained reluctant to invoke Taft-Hartley on the East and Gulf coasts, preferring to give the disputants more time to work it out for themselves. Meanwhile, shippers who tried to avoid the dock mess in the U.S. by diverting their vessels to Canadian ports along the St. Lawrence face another peril. Winter weather will probably choke...