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Some of his chores were decidedly unpleasant. In his seven years of office, he had been forced only five times to call upon the Taft-Hartley law's injunctive machinery against strikes threatening the national interest. To him, the necessity of using Taft-Hartley could only result from the failure of collective-bargaining procedures, in which he deeply believes. Yet last week he had to invoke Taft-Hartley twice, once in the Eastern dock strike, again-and with more disappointment-in the marathon steel strike...
...Commerce Secretary Frederick Mueller. All listened quietly while Mitchell reported some bad news to the President: labor and management had made no progress toward settling the longest nationwide steel strike in U.S. history. That left only one thing to do: President Eisenhower set into motion the machinery of the Taft-Hartley law, aimed at halting the strike by injunction for 80 days to provide a cooling-off period. He named a three-man committee of labor experts to write the fact-finding report required by law (see box) before the injunction can be obtained...
Earlier in the week from California, the President had invoked Taft-Hartley in the East and Gulf Coasts dock strike that had idled some 70,000 workers. But to Dwight Eisenhower, the necessity of using Taft-Hartley in the steel strike was far more distressing, and he put his feelings into the announcement of his decision. Wrote the President: "I profoundly regret that the parties to the dispute have failed to resolve their differences through the preferred methods of free collective bargaining, even though every appropriate Government service was available to them in support of their efforts." The President pointed...
Latham managed to combine academic and public service careers by remaining as a consultant to various bureaus in the Executive branch of the government until 1953, "when the new administration took over the government and all faculty returned to their colleges." For a brief time during the Eisenhower-Taft fight within the Republican Party, he sided with the Eisenhower faction, but for the last seven or eight years he has considered himself politically as an "independent...
...dingy Baptist church near the Kremlin, one of the few churches still open in Moscow, was jammed with some 1,500 Russians, most of them of the same generation as the big, intense man who stood in the pulpit. The preacher: touring Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, a high apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. With an interpreter at his side, Mormon Benson spoke with great emotion, poured out his thoughts with eloquent simplicity. Said he: "Be not afraid. Keep his Commandments. Love one another. Love all mankind. Strive for peace, and all will...