 Although the Steelworkers won only a fractionally higher wage increase than the steelmakers had proposed, the settlement included the nine-member committee, proposed earlier by Goldberg and McDonald.On November 7, 1959, on the 116th day of the strike, the Supreme Court upheld the appellate court's findings.In "Steelworkers v. United States", 361 U.S. 39 (1959), in an 8–1 "per curiam" decision, the court upheld the constitutionality of the Taft-Hartley Act.