Report Outline
Demand for Restraints on Big Labor
New Labor-Management Power Struggle
Changing Issues in Collective Bargaining
Demand for Restraints on Big Labor
President's Plea for Steel Strike Settlement
A demand for prompt settlement of differences between labor and management In the steel industry, made by President Eisenhower shortly before he departed on his present eleven-nation tour, pointed up sharply the threat to free collective bargaining that would be posed if the steel strike should be resumed on Jan. 26, That is the expiration date of the Taft-Hartley injunction which sent the men back to work after 116 days away from the mills.
The administration has repeatedly voiced opposition to government intervention in labor disputes. Its reluctance to resort to compulsion was demonstrated by the fact that it allowed an industry-wide strike in a basic industry to go on for three months before moving to obtain the temporary back-to-work order now in force. However, when the President addressed the nation on television just before leaving the country on Dec. 3, he showed that his patience was exhausted.
America will not tolerate for long [he said] the crippling of the entire economy as the result of labor-management disputes in any one industry or any group of industries…. The choice is up to free American employers and employees. Voluntarily in the spirit of free collective bargaining, they will act responsibly, or else, in due course, their countrymen will see that they act responsibly. |
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Aug. 07, 2015 |
Unions at a Crossroads |
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Sep. 02, 2005 |
Labor Unions' Future  |
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Jun. 28, 1996 |
Labor Movement's Future |
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Jun. 14, 1985 |
Organized Labor in the 1980s |
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Nov. 06, 1981 |
Labor Under Siege |
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Mar. 24, 1978 |
Labor's Southern Strategy |
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Aug. 20, 1976 |
Labor's Options |
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Oct. 27, 1971 |
Organized Labor After the Freeze |
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Oct. 19, 1966 |
Labor Strife and the Public Interest |
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Jan. 30, 1963 |
Strike Action and the Law |
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Sep. 20, 1961 |
Conflicts in Organized Labor |
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Aug. 04, 1960 |
Labor, Management, and the National Interest |
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Dec. 16, 1959 |
Future of Free Collective Bargaining |
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Nov. 04, 1959 |
Featherbedding and Union Work Rules |
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Feb. 18, 1959 |
Public Intervention in Labor Disputes |
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Jul. 09, 1958 |
Suits Against Labor Unions |
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Nov. 13, 1957 |
Right-To-Work Laws |
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Oct. 31, 1956 |
Union Organizing |
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May 01, 1954 |
State Powers in Labor Relations |
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Oct. 02, 1953 |
Toward Labor Unity |
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Apr. 11, 1953 |
Industry-Wide Bargaining and Industry-Wide Strikes |
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Sep. 03, 1952 |
Labor and Politics |
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Mar. 25, 1950 |
Labor Injunctions |
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Jan. 25, 1950 |
Trade Unions and Productivity |
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Sep. 26, 1949 |
Fact-Finding Boards in Labor Disputes |
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Mar. 05, 1949 |
Closed Shop |
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Dec. 01, 1948 |
Revision of the Taft-Hartley Act |
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Jan. 01, 1947 |
Labor Unions, the Public and the Law |
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Oct. 09, 1946 |
Revision of the Wagner Act |
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Sep. 25, 1946 |
Labor Productivity |
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May 29, 1946 |
Labor Organization in the South |
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Jan. 30, 1946 |
Compulsory Settlement of Labor Disputes |
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May 18, 1945 |
Labor Policy After the War |
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Mar. 29, 1945 |
Union Maintenance |
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Feb. 02, 1945 |
Labor Relations in Coal Mining |
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Oct. 12, 1944 |
No-Strike Pledge |
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Sep. 16, 1944 |
Political Action by Organized Labor |
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May 30, 1944 |
Unionization of Foremen |
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Apr. 01, 1944 |
Dismissal Pay |
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Apr. 29, 1943 |
Labor in Government |
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Apr. 09, 1943 |
Public Regulation of Trade Unions |
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Nov. 19, 1941 |
Labor Policies of the Roosevelt Administration |
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Oct. 23, 1941 |
Closed Shop Issue in Labor Relations |
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Mar. 29, 1941 |
Labor as Partner in Production |
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Feb. 12, 1941 |
Labor and the Defense Program |
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Feb. 23, 1940 |
Labor in Politics |
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Jan. 17, 1939 |
Settlement of Disputes Between Labor Unions |
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Jul. 01, 1938 |
Three Years of National Labor Relations Act |
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Nov. 12, 1937 |
State Regulation of Labor Relations |
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Jul. 10, 1937 |
Restrictions on the Right to Strike |
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Apr. 28, 1937 |
The Labor Market and the Unemployed |
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Mar. 26, 1937 |
Control of the Sit-Down Strike |
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Mar. 13, 1937 |
Collective Bargaining in the Soft-Coal Industry |
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Jan. 22, 1937 |
Responsibility of Labor Unions |
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Nov. 11, 1936 |
Industrial Unionism and the A.F. of L. |
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Jul. 30, 1936 |
Federal Intervention in Labor Disputes |
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Jul. 14, 1936 |
Labor Relations in the Steel Industry |
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Apr. 17, 1934 |
Company Unions and Collective Bargaining |
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Feb. 07, 1934 |
Settlement of Labor Disputes |
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Sep. 12, 1933 |
Trade Unionism Under the Recovery Program |
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Feb. 17, 1932 |
Wage Concessions by Trade Unions |
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Oct. 01, 1929 |
Status of the American Labor Movement |
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Jul. 20, 1929 |
Trade Unionism in the South |
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Aug. 31, 1928 |
Organized Labor in National Politics |
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Feb. 04, 1928 |
The Use of Injunctions in Labor Disputes |
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Sep. 09, 1927 |
Organized Labor and the Works Council Movement |
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Oct. 12, 1923 |
The A.F. of L. and the “New Radicalism” |
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