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...typical Democratic bogey is the Taft-Hartley law. Democrats have pledged to repeal and rewrite the law, while Republicans would add the 22 liberalizing amendments proposed by Senator Taft three years ago. Since a new Democratic law as proposed by the CIO includes these amendments, the final legislative product will be almost the same no matter who wins...
...mayor of highly industrial Toledo, DiSalle was unusually successful in reconciling labor-management disputes. Summoned to Washington last year for the thankless job of administering price controls, DiSalle amazed pressure groups with his independence. He talked wage controls to the CIO convention. In front of Southern Congressmen, he complained that cotton was not a commodity, but a theology." Dubbed "the fat man in the hot seat," DiSalle failed to freeze prices, but won the nation's sympathy and chuckles...
Twenty trade union officials will arrive at the Business School this week to start an intensive 13-week program of study in labor relations. Clinton S. Golden, former vice-president of the CIO United Steel Workers, is director of the project...
...persuaded to step out of such a part last season. He isn't right for this one, either: he plays a farce role with quite un-comic intensity. But the play does have a certain breeziness and three talented comediennes-Audrey Christie, Vicki Cummings, Enid Markey. They are cio match, however, for a sagging play and an actor who keeps spoiling his jokes...
...Fields. Once, when the CIO textile union balked at letting members step up production with the new machinery, Kahn's firmness took the form of a slowdown strike by management. For two months he stopped hustling for new business, cut production. Says Kahn: "That convinced the union that it would gain more by agreeing to step up output-and it has. While output has doubled, the earnings of our employees have tripled." (Kahn has had but one short strike among his 4,500 employees...