Five months ago, the National Labor Relations Board ordered the Inland Steel Co. to bargain with the C.I.O. United Steel Workers on pensions—provided the union's officers signed non-Communist affidavits.
Both the company and the union appealed to the courts. The Wagner Act, said the company, did not stipulate that pensions were subjects for bargaining. The Taft-Hartley Act's non-Communist affidavits, said the union, were unconstitutional.
Last week the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago slapped down both company and union. It ruled 2 to i that the Taft-Hartley Act's requirement for non-Communist affidavits is constitutional. It ruled unanimously that management must bargain on...
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