On the ninth day of the nationwide copper strike, President Truman reluctantly trundled out a Taft-Hartley injunction for the first time since Korea, sent 53,700 members of the left-wing International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers back to their jobs. Already back at work were 8,300 employees of the huge Kennecott Copper Corp., which had made a separate peace with the union five days before. Kennecott's terms: a raise averaging 15¢ an hour (just a fraction of a cent more than its last offer before the strike began), and an additional 4½¢ an hour in pensions....
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