BUSINESS TWES Is Bargaining Free? by Henry Hazlitt T WENTY-SEVEN years of experience have demonstrated not that our Federal labor law is "inadequate" to deal with strikes, but that it encour ages and strengthens them. Eventual settlement of nationwide strikes has come not because of the Taft-Hartley Act, but usually in spite of it. When the President, after holding off thirteen weeks, finally resorted to the emergency provisions of the Taft Hartley Act, his action...
