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Conscientious Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson strives to be a good Republican shepherd to U.S. farmers, hopes mightily to lead them out from under the oppressive fold of Government regulation, so that they can profit by their own ingenuity and hard work, and not by scandalous subsidy. Last week Ezra Benson's conscience clashed with Jim Mitchell's conscience over migrant labor in one of the few public Cabinet rows of the Eisenhower Administration...
Prospects are that the strike will continue into October, when steel inventories will become exhausted and the economy will be hard hit by the strike. If this happens, Secretary of Labor James Mitchell said he would recommend that the President invoke the Taft-Hartley Law. Such action would send the Steelworkers back to work for about 80 days, give a fact-finding board time to study the issues and try to persuade both sides to settle. If no settlement is reached during the 80-day cooling off period then the strike would resume...
...union has repeatedly asked that Taft-Hartley not be used, arguing that it would bail out the steel companies, which could resume production just when the pressure (from shortages) to settle is greatest. In 80 days they could build up production enough to satisfy some industry needs and face another strike. But there is a growing feeling among rank-and-filers that, Taft-Hartley or no, the union is already licked and will have to settle on the industry's terms...
...cost more sweat and legislative pain than any other act since Taft-Hartley. Jack Kennedy's political prestige was committed to the relatively mild Kennedy bill (even though it had been beefed up in a floor fight led by Arkansas' John McClellan), and the Kennedy bill passed the Senate 90-1. President Eisenhower's power and prestige were committed to the sterner bill sponsored by Georgia Democrat Phil Landrum and Michigan Republican Robert Griffin which he had bulled through the House (229-201) with his effective television appeal (TIME, Aug. 17). Few old hands on Capitol Hill...
...Kennedy avoided disaster by giving way to most of LandrumGriffin's amendments to the Taft-Hartley Act. In effect Kennedy: ¶ Accepted the House's strong ban on secondary boycotts (barely mentioned in the Senate bill), including the Eisenhower-requested ban against picketing of innocent retailers who sell goods from struck plants...