In choosing their Secretaries of Labor, Republican Presidents have followed Woodrow Wilson's precedent by appointing union men, while Democratic Presidents have chosen nonunion men. * When he selected his Secretary of Labor last December, Dwight Eisenhower tried the Republican way, named Martin Durkin, president of the A.F.L.'s plumbers and pipefitters union. It did not work. Durkin, angry because his proposals for amending the Taft-Hartley law had been stalled, quit last month.
Last week President Eisenhower turned his back on the G.O.P. pattern. He appointed a nonunion man, James P. Mitchell, to succeed Durkin. Mitchell, on leave from his job as...
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