Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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U.A.W. negotiations were already under way with Chrysler, Packard, Kaiser-Frazer and Hudson. United Electrical Workers will begin their fight with Westinghouse and General Electric on Jan. 4. Phil Murray's Steelworkers bargain next month to replace a contract expiring...
...life till his second year at Wisconsin University. At this point he got mixed up with Harvard, a Rhodes Scholarship, and the question of China's destiny. So that today, or on October 7, 1946, we find him asserting in a "Times" book review, "When we fail to bargain with Chiang Kai-shek and extract from his regime the long-promised reforms which alone can cut the ground from under Chinese communism, and which were implied would be prerequisite to our aid, were seem stupid, and our audience in Asia realizes we can be manipulated by our fears...
Tactics. But Lewis was not to be quieted by that one. He merely applied to the Krug-Lewis agreement a fateful clause from the U.M.W.'s 1945 contract with the private operators. That clause permitted either signer to reopen negotiations after ten days' notice, to bargain for 15 days, and to cry "no contract" five days after the bargaining stopped. Cap Krug contended that the clause had been abrogated by the 1946 agreement with the Government. Lewis said it had not-and he had gained a great tactical advantage when, by an election eve strike threat...
...reality the UMW will be going out for higher wages from the operators. And, since all controls have been taken off, there is no case that the government is upholding policy. The criminal part of it is that Lewis, confident of his own strength, has refused to bargain fairly with the government...
...Dough. The Sun's left-handed little brother in Manhattan, PM, last week ran its first ads, in its own brave effort to pay its way. On its current small circulation (170,755), its first rate card offered no bargain. At a flat rate of 60? a line, it cost general display advertisers up to four times as much to reach a PM reader as it cost to talk to New Yorkers through the other eight dailies...