Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President had decided by late Thursday afternoon that he would act on Friday night if the miners and operators had not reached a solution. He had instructed Domestic Affairs Adviser Stuart Eizenstat to prepare a plan of action. Eizenstat recommended that Carter invoke the Taft-Hartley Act, imposing an 80-day back-to-work injunction on the miners, and request congressional authorization to seize the coal mines...
...miners believe they hold a strategic advantage because coal supplies are fast falling short, particularly in the Middle West. All over that region utilities have been cutting back services. President Carter will try his powers of persuasion on the miners and operators. He has reason not to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act. As Robert Little, who came from Harlan County, Ky., to demonstrate, put it: "They can make us go back and work-but at what rate of speed? I can work awful slow...
...part, Byrd's colleagues welcome his nearly unerring sense of where the Senators collectively want to go. Even Republicans give him high marks, at least for technical skill. Says New York's Jacob Javits: "He moves heaven and earth to keep the Senate going. But Mike Mansfield and Bob Taft [Republican leader in 1953] did not have to be majority leaders to be great Senators. Byrd is an efficient person in charge of the Senate...
...I.T.U. had instructed its locals not to sign any contracts without a closed-shop clause-even though the closed shop had just been outlawed by the Taft-Hartley Act Amendment...
...strike has had little effect on the nation's economy; expecting the inevitable, importers and exporters rushed container ship deliveries through the ports before the deadline. Although past dock strikes have frequently been ended by Taft-Hartley injunction, the Carter Administration has pledged to keep hands off for the moment to allow the free collective-bargaining process to work. If there is no quick settlement, the I.L.A. threatens to extend the strike to other types of vessels besides container ships. Oil tankers, which haul the nation's biggest import, would not be affected (no longshore labor is required...