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...which had laid a few detours around the new law (TIME, July 21). Last week the C.I.O.'s lusty, restive United Automobile Workers opened up on the Ford Motor Co. U.A.W. made Ford a test case in a fight to get unions out from under any responsibility for wildcat strikes. U.A.W. wanted a clause in its contract specifically releasing the union from the law's provisions that unions may be held financially responsible in court actions for failures to control the membership...
Labor, facing the Taft-Hartley Act, reacted swiftly. John Lewis' coal miners struck back with a sweeping wildcat strike through the nation's coal fields. In his cocked fist Lewis held the threat of a full-scale strike. The rest of the A.F.L. and the C.I.O. mobilized in an effort to destroy the new law, by constitutional and more peaceful means, in the courts...
Since unions will be liable to suit for contract violation, wildcat strikes will become unpopular. Jurisdictional strikes and boycotts will be sharply curtailed by the NLRB's authority to get injunctions...
...wildcat strike of truck drivers which badly disrupted all distribution...
...others, including Thorez, agreed. It was time for a switch. A communique announced: "The political bureau has decided to support without reserve the legitimate demands [of the strikers]." The Communist paper Humanite, which had at first denounced the wildcat strike as a "provocation" by "troublemaking elements," now referred to it as "a disciplined, justified protest of the exploited workers...