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Perhaps the weakest article in the entire issue is Richard B. Stone '63's discussion of the Taft-Eisenhower fight for delegates in Louisiana in 1952. Stone, who attended the 1960 GOP convention as an honorary Sergeant-at-Arms, brings his objectivity into question by a display of apparent pro-Eisenhower bias in the opening paragraphs. Without explanation, he declares that Taft was an "ultraconservative isolationist" and that "Many believe that Taft could never have beaten Stevenson, and that he was exclusively the candidate of rock-ribbed Republicans...
From then on the article tells how the Taft Republicans in Louisiana resorted to elaborate chicanery and blatant bossism to prevent a supposedly pro-Eisenhower rank and file from exercising their democratic rights. It also tells how, once the villainous Old Guard was overthrown in the national convention. Louisiana Republicanism prospered under its new, Modern Republican leader, John Minor Wisdom. Stone writes well, and his story may be true, but his tendencies towards overstatement undermine his credibility somewhat...
...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...
...just this year's bills," said one. "Landrum will be hitting us in the head for the next 20 years." The insurgents got support from labor, which has the authors of the Landrum-Griffin Act on the same blacklist as the authors of the Taft-Hartley...
Since the strike-delaying provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act had been exhausted in the dock dispute, the President sought to unscramble the tie-up by naming a special three-man mediation board headed by Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse, who served as an arbitrator in West Coast dock strikes before World War II. The mission assigned to Morse by the President was to settle as quickly as possible the last remaining issue between the longshoremen and the shippers-a union demand for a wages-and-benefits package totaling 61? an hour over the next two years. Flying...