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OCR Page 1 of 7MEMORANDUM TO ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL BALDRIDGE
Re: Inapplicability of the Taft-Hartley Act to
the Steel Dispute
Secs. 206 to 210 of the Taft-Miartley Act provide in substance
that whenever in the opinion of the President
"a threatened or actual strike or lock-out
affecting an entire industry or a substantial
part thereof engaged in trade commerce, trans-
portation, transmission or communication among
the several states or with foreign nations or
engaged in the production of goods for commerce,
will if permitted to occur or to continue,
imperil the national safety"
he may appoint a board of inquiry to make a written report. (Sec. 206).
Upon receipt of the report the President may direct the
Attorney General to petition a District Court for an order enjoining
the strike or lockout or the continuing thereof and court shall grant
the injuction if it finds
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(1) That the strike affects an entire industry, etc. and
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(2) That it will imperil the national health and safety.
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ODVERANT
(Sec. 208).
After the injunction has been issued the board of inquiry shall
** reconvene and shall submit a report to the President at the end of a
sixty day period. within the next fifteen days the NLRB is to take
a secret ballot as to whether the employees wish to accept the final
offer of settlement made by their employers, and certify the results
to the Attorney General within five days thereafter (Sec. 209).
The Attorney General shall nove for a discharge of the
injunction upon certification of the results.When the motion is
granted the President shall submit to Congress a full report of the
proceedings together with such recommendations as he may see fit
for consideration and appropriste action. (Sec. 210).
It is submitted
(1) That it is discretionary with the Prosident whether
he wants to exercise the authority conferred upon
under the Taft-Hartley Act, and that the valid
reasons mitigated against the invocation of the
Taft-Hartley procedure.
(a) In Januery when the President submitted the
dispute to the Wage Stabilization Board, and
(b) At the present time.
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