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...outsiders the show seemed to follow the routine peacetime patterns: offers, counteroffers, the appearance (and failure) of a Government conciliator, the transfer of New York negotiations to Washington. John Lewis stood fast: he wanted to crack the Little Steel wage formula with a $2-a-day raise for his men and to torpedo WLB (as he had sunk its predecessor, the National Defense Mediation Board). But what he was really after was a showdown with the President. John Lewis is not at all afraid of the Champ; the Champ, after years of trial bouts, is not so keen...
...without a negotiated contract the miners will not trespass on your property on April 1." He did not say "strike" -he had joined in the no-strike pledge given by labor shortly after Pearl Harbor. But his meaning was clear: he planned to turn his demand for a $2-a-day wage increase into an all-out assault on the Administration's Maginot Line against inflation. Behind the line the Administration worked frantically on its defenses. First move: a delaying action designed to gain another month for negotiation. For if John Lewis gets his raise, he will have breached...
Toward The Rocks. The biggest reef ahead was John L. Lewis. This week his 500,000 bituminous miners began negotiations for their $2-a-day wage increase-which is far & away beyond the 15%-raise yardstick. The shaky aircraft decision was plain warning to John Lewis of what his miners may expect. Last week, Lewis said...
Cheyfitz and his pals have enough disunity already, could hardly stand more. Besides scrapping with Alcoa and WLB (partly over a $1-a-day wage boost), the Die Casting local is fighting counter-organization drives by the powerful Aluminum Workers of America (which already controls nine Alcoa plants), and John L. Lewis' District 50 division of the United Mine Workers (which controls Alcoa's Buffalo plant). Both would like to get a pipeline into Cheyfitz' fat 7,000-man dues pot. Thus the Die Casters' "no-strike" edict was partly prompted by a desire to keep...
Dissenting Opinions. Not even WLB liked its compromise. The four labor members voted against the decision, holding out for the $1-a-day that C.I.O. wanted. The four employer members joined the four representatives of the public in voting yes-but with reservations. Wrote Employer Roger D. Lapham: "Management has plenty to learn in dealing with labor. Management must learn a technique and philosophy now foreign to the great majority in its ranks...