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...minutes later, wavy-haired United Steelworkers President David J. McDonald drifted in to talk sonorously to scribbling reporters. "We've engaged in another exercise of futility. Industry deliberately maneuvered and stalled and engaged in all kinds of fakery." Industry strategy, he charged, was to depend upon the Taft-Hartley law's 80-day injunction as "a bargaining tool" to drive strikers back into the mills...
...Difference. Both sides were waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold or reject the U.S. petition for a Taft-Hartley injunction suspending the strike for 80 days. But the McDonald v. industry exchange on the strike's 109th day revealed a crevasse too wide to be bridged by Taft-Hartley injunctions, or even by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service's summons for both sides to report to Washington this week for talks...
Fighting the back-to-work order issued by a lower court, union counsel Arthur J. Goldberg said that in enacting the Taft-Hartley law Congress "passed the buck to the Supreme Court to break strikes...
Goldberg contended there is no national emergency to warrant such drastic action, that there is no threat to national health and safety within the meaning of the law, that the injunction section of the Taft-Hartley law is unconstitutional...
...Summerfield and his well-heeled friends intend to starve him out, then he. Ford, would personally see that the party paid its bills. In the angry exchange. Ford recalled Sum-merfield's generalship of the Michigan delegation at the 1952 convention, his slowness in moving from Taft to Eisenhower. his warning to Ford at the time: "If you interfere with this, I'll drag you through the streets of Detroit...