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...their localities. In the South, the supporters are Democrats; elsewhere they are mostly Republicans. Main argument for outlawing the union shop: workers who do not wish to join a union are coerced by contracts requiring them to do so or lose their jobs. Main argument against: under the federal Taft-Hartley Act, unions represent whole groups, members and nonmembers, and laws forbidding union-shop contracts encourage "free-loaders," who pay no union dues...
Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson is well aware that the U.S. needs a more effective and better integrated policy for selling its agricultural surpluses abroad. To this end, both Secretary Benson and General Foods' ex-Chairman Clarence Francis, head of a surplus disposal committee, are hard at work. But with farm output steadily rising throughout the world, the prospect is growing dimmer and dimmer that the answer to the U.S. surplus problem is the disposal of food abroad...
...late Robert A. Taft pointed out that while the Security Council is charged with maintaining "peace and security," this is not synonymous with maintaining justice. As an example of keeping the peace at the expense of justice, Taft cited Neville Chamberlain's agreement to give the Sudetenland to Germany. Taft called for the principle of justice under law to be substituted for the U.N.'s method of peacekeeping by expediency...
...Taft might have provided that kind of leadership. Without it the powerful senior Republicans, particularly in the Senate, still run things to suit their own conveniences. The Old Guard Republican leaders do not seem to be trying to take over the party. Rather, they snipe or obstruct without any apparent sense of party responsibility or direction. Minority Leader Bill Knowland, New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Illinois' Everett Dirksen, Ohio's John Bricker and Colorado's Eugene Millikin virtually ignore the President as a leader of Congress. He makes no effort to punish them for so doing...
COTTON EXPORTS in 1955 will jump 500,000 bales or 20% over last year, predicts Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. Because of the new law that permits sales of U.S. farm goods abroad for foreign currency, a deal to sell 50,000 bales to Yugoslavia has already been wrapped up, and another for 175,000 bales to Japan will soon be signed...