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...South Dakota cornfield, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson rose on the speaker's platform, drew a barrage of half a dozen eggs from local farmers (their peeve: Benson had not answered their letters). After seeing the whites of the farmers' eggs, Benson said gravely: "This doesn't represent the feeling of the people of South Dakota...
Examiner George A. Downing ruled that Kohler must take back strikers whose jobs were not filled by June 1, 1954-even if it has to lay off non-union employees to make room for them. Under the Taft-Hartley Law, a company cannot dismiss workers who strike against unfair labor practices. On June 1, 1954, said Downing. Kohler began defying that provision; it raised non-strikers' pay without consulting the U.A.W., later fired 143 strikers and refused to bargain with the union over the dismissals...
...workers seem to be finding out that the once-hated Taft-Hartley Act gives them a right to complain to the Government against unfair pushing around by their own union bosses as well as their employers. In a speech to a gathering of labor lawyers last week, the National Labor Relations Board's Chairman Boyd Leedom reported that, of the unfair-labor-practice cases handled by NLRB during the past year, individual workers filed 37% of the 3,522 charges against management, and a remarkable 46% of the 1,743 charges against unions...
...consistent tendency to build up farm surpluses instead of reduce them. Last week the newest example was sorghum, a flat leafed, long-stalked feed grain that means little to cityfolk. But it is a price-support gold mine to farmers, and a throbbing new headache to Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson...
...Rube Goldberg awkwardness of the U.S.'s federal farm programs was revealed once again last week in a problem faced-and solved, after a fashion-by Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. To avert a threatened collapse in hog prices next year, Benson offered to support this year, at $1.10 a bushel, any and all corn grown by Corn Belt farmers who ignored the Agriculture Department's acreage controls (for farmers who complied with controls, the support price is $1.36). He was "sorry," said Benson, but he just had to take the step, because if free-market corn prices...