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got "NATIONAN ARCHIVES AMD RECORDa 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 This would 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