LABOR: Firing Line

Some Congressmen and most businessmen were still peering suspiciously at the men President Harry Truman had picked to administer the Taft-Hartley Act. His interim appointees to the expanded National Labor Relations Board, they grumbled, had loaded the whole board in labor's favor. But the choice Harry Truman made last week to head the autonomous Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service was one that both business and labor could applaud. The man was Canadian-born Cyrus S. Ching, a towering (6 ft. 7 in.) pipe-smoking oldster (71) with 28 years of experience in labor relations....

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