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It is with extreme reluctance that I have
today invoked the provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act
in the steel shutdown. I have been faced with a
terrible choice which the two other branches of the
Government have imposed on me. The Congress and the
Courts have left me with only two courses.
The first was to do nothing, to permit the
steel shutdown to continue and to stand by as our
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blood was being drained, and, thus, gravely to imperil
the national safety and security, the lives of our
soldiers in Korea, and our way of life itself.
The second course was to invoke the only
procedure left to me--the Taft-Hartley Act and thus
halt the strike for eighty days. I am all too
conscious of how terribly unfair it is to the steel
workers for me to do this. I am fully aware that by
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