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Question of Precedent. Although it was obviously true that pensions would cost the steelmen money, the fact finders had agreed among themselves that steel's profits were large enough to absorb the full cost of the pension and welfare plans. Nevertheless, Steelman Fairless was on firm ground when he insisted that this was a matter to be thrashed out at the bargaining table. That was a part of the original agreement...
...saying that a pension and welfare plan financed entirely by management would set a precedent, Ben Fairless was not on firm ground. Murray's union already had a number of noncontributory contracts among some 400 pension and insurance agreements with the steel industry and metal fabricators. Bethlehem Steel and Jones & Laughlin had been paying the full cost of pension plans for more than 20 years. Fairless' U.S. Steel itself had been an important party to the royalty-pension contract which operators of soft-coal mines had signed with John Lewis (see below). A steel spokesman said: "The Government...
...husky, doorbell-ringing Navy veteran, over the Democrats' inexperienced Mrs. Robert L. Coffey Sr. (TIME, Sept. 12). Campaigning on the congressional and war records of her son, who was killed in a jet fighter plane five months ago, Candidate Coffey was barely able to hold her own among the miners and factory workers of heavily industrial Cambria County. Hustling Republican Saylor picked up enough support elsewhere in the traditionally Republican 26th to pile up an 8,500 vote majority...
...nonpartisan mayoralty primary, seemed a sure bet for election in November. An ex-salesman for the Burroughs Adding Machine Co., Cobo was called in to straighten out the city's rickety finances in 1933, for the past 16 years has been quietly building up a loyal following among Detroit's foreign-born groups. The runner-up, and Cobo's November rival: Harvard-trained Council President George Edwards, 35, a onetime organizer for the C.I.O.'s Auto Workers. Edwards will buck a tough precedent in November: a U.A.W. candidate has yet to win a Detroit mayoralty election...
Tottering on the pinnacle of this tower of Babel stands English, the language of the modern intelligentsia, business community and bureaucracy. More than a century ago there had been a nip & tuck d'ebate among India's British masters over a practical official language for their vast colony...