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...Congress, goes from the frying pan to the fire -from North Dakota's drafty William Langer to West Virginia's drafty Harley Kilgore. Few revisions in labor-management law are likely to come out of the 84th, since North Carolina's Graham Barden, a staunch Taft-Hartley man, will be chairman of the House Labor Committee. And there is little chance of anyone pushing tax reduction past Virginia's Senator Byrd until Government spending is sharply cut-a prospect that is even dimmer than it was before the election...
...wing of the Republican Party on the national level. New York State is not quite the impregnable stronghold of liberal Republicanism that one might gather from the editorial pages of the Chicago Tribune. One of the lesser-known facts about the 1952. Republican convention is that there was considerable Taft sentiment in the New York delegation. It has been estimated that as many as fifty delegates were personally favorable to Taft. But when Dewey cracked the whip, the elephant performed as a good elephant should and gave almost 100 votes to Eisenhower, assuring him of the nomination. No Sabu with...
...first decisions under its new policy to exempt small firms from the Taft-Hartley Act (TIME, July 26), the National Labor Relations Board last week split on where the line should be drawn. Last summer, when NLRB first announced that it would narrow its jurisdiction to exclude small retailers, utility companies, etc., and concentrate on companies having an important impact on interstate commerce, there was no dissent. But when NLRB last week showed what it meant by turning down six of eight union requests for federal supervision of bargaining elections,* the decision divided the five-man board on straight party...
Although Republican candidate George H. Bender held a slight lead over Democratic incumbent Thomas Burke, Cleveland experts predicted that a late surge of industrial voting would give Burke the late Senator Taft's old seat in this close contest...
STOCK PURCHASE PLANS for employees are matters for collective bargaining, if the company itself contributes toward the purchase. In so ruling in a case involving Richfield Oil, the National Labor Relations Board significantly broadened the meaning of "wages [and] other conditions" in the Taft-Hartley Act. Richfield is appealing the ruling to the federal courts. But NLRB did not open the door to union demands for companies to set up stock purchase plans; that question was not an issue...