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With President Eisenhower apparently about to invoke the injunction provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act in the national steel strike the CRIMSON questioned three professors in the Department of Economics for their opinions on the issue...
Unless there is a quick change in the situation, it is expected President Eisenhower will invoke the Taft-Hartley act to get the 500,000 strikers back in the mills for an 80-day cooling off period...
...there is no progress, it seemed likely Eisenhower would move to stop the strike for 80 days anyway, by invoking emergency provisions of the Taft-Hartley...
...Jimmy Hoffa is ever crowbarred out of the driver's seat of the Teamsters Union, he need not fear for the future. Hoffa's predecessor, fat, easy-to-shove Dave Beck, faces trial on a charge of violating the Taft-Hartley Act and is sweating out appeals on convictions for income-tax evasion and grand larceny. But Seattle's Citizen Beck is too busy making money and enjoying life to worry too much about his problems...
...convention, Secretary of Labor James Mitchell said that the Administration would have "no alternative" but to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act-and send the strikers back to work for 80 days-if the strike did not end soon. He also warned the steel companies that they were being very "shortsighted" in not finding a means to end the strike. If the Taft-Hartley Act was invoked, and there was no settlement during the 80-day period, Mitchell said that legislation "inimical" to the steel companies might well be passed by Congress...