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...strike. "I believe." said he, "that we have got to thoroughly test out and to use the method of free bargaining," and when the Government starts pressuring, "then I believe it's not free." The "conditions are certainly not here at the moment," he added, for invoking the Taft-Hartley Act provision calling for a fact-finding board ("All the facts are pretty well known") and an So-day cooling-off period when a strike threatens to "imperil the national health or safety...
...prolonged strike could throw millions out of work and close down more industries. That would clearly be a national emergency, and reason for President Eisenhower to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act, seek a strike injunction that would bring the workers back to the plants for 80 days. Said Chairman Paul Carnahan of Great Lakes Steel Corp.: "I doubt that a settlement, when it comes, will originate with either management or the union. We will have to wait until an air of crisis begins to develop nationally...
...national forests, administered by Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, are also one of the few Government operations to turn a profit. In fiscal 1960 the Forest Service will spend $116,575,800 on its forests-including $38 million for roads and trails-but the forests will take in $129 million from timber sales, grazing fees and other items ranging down to rentals of 18,000 private summer homes on national forest land. The national forests' land, timber and forage alone are appraised at $7 billion...
...break came in 1952, before the Republican National Convention in Chicago. Warren, as he led the California convention eastward by train, had high hopes that he might get the presidential nomination through an Eisenhower-Taft deadlock. (He had been Tom Dewey's running mate in 1948.) Nixon, though pledged with the California delegation to Warren for President, was an active Eisenhower advocate who had also talked privately about the vice presidency with Ikemen Tom Dewey and Herbert Brownell. Fresh from Chicago convention headquarters, Nixon swung aboard the Warren train at Denver, began spreading the word of Eisenhower...
...TEAMSTER BOSS Dave Beck was indicted by federal grand jury with Roy Fruehauf, president of Fruehauf Trailer Co., and Burge Seymour, president of Associated Transport, Inc. Government charged that $200,000 loan from Fruehauf's and Seymour's companies violated Taft-Hartley Act. Maximum penalty: a year in jail and $10,000 fine...