Word: union
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emergency procedure of the twelve-year-old Taft-Hartley Act is constitutional. It does not, as the union contended, unconstitutionally require the courts to "legislate" policy on a strike. "The statute does recognize certain rights in the public to have unimpeded for a time production in industries vital to the national health or safety," ruled the court...
...steel strike satisfies the Taft-Hartley requirement for evident danger to "the national health or safety" before an injunction may be issued. Contrary to union argument, said the court, the Government does not have to prove something as vague as "damage to national health," because the steel strike in fact imperils "national safety" by specific effects upon defense projects...
...union contention that the U.S. could easily satisfy its defense needs by channeling requirements to a few reopened mills, the court replied that it is not the job of the U.S., before applying for a Taft-Hartley injunction, to reorganize "the affected industry...
...week's end the war seemed hotter than ever. The day before the court decision, U.S. Steel Executive Vice President R. Conrad Cooper, top industry negotiator, told the Virginia Manufacturers Association that the union enjoys "vastly" greater power than the companies; that Steelworker President David McDonald is the "only man who can choke off our nation's steel supply at will." When the Supreme Court order was announced, McDonald agreed to obey "the law of the land," but struck a do-or-die pose. Cried he: "Steelworkers do not quit. They will not bow down to industrial tyranny...
Worm's Progress. But if Germany offered no lively hopes as a topic on the agenda, why did anyone expect much on disarmament? The hopeful signs were few. Delegates from the U.S., Britain and the Soviet Union have been meeting for a year in Geneva to negotiate a treaty banning nuclear-weapons tests. Early last week there was a nicker of progress. Soviet Conference Delegate Semyon Tsarapkin launched into a 45-minute attack on towering (6 ft. 4 in.) U.S. Ambassador James Wadsworth. According to Tsarapkin, Wadsworth's insistence that Russia must agree to study U.S. data...