Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spokesmen rejected S. W. O. C.'s terms for ending the Lackawanna strike. The terms: 1) reinstatement of workers who had been fired over a wage dispute; 2) an immediate conference between management and the union to discuss grievances; 3) an election at the plant to determine a bargaining agent and a promise from the company to sit down and bargain. When the company threatened to demand that the militia be called out, Knudsen leaned across the table, shook a long finger, declared: "That would be pure murder." Hour after hour the conferees wrestled and wrangled...
...Foster's Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair has been a stand-by of the networks in fighting ASCAP with songs in the public domain. Lovers of American music recalled that this number had been written 87 years ago by a composer who was not only free to bargain with publishers and players of his music, but died without the price of a meal in his pocket...
...today, with all of Jesse's sharp goings-on, than no Jesse and no Houston." Jesse Jones operates now in a higher, brighter sphere. Power is his passion, but now he is equally passionate over the benevolent use of that power. If he drives a hard bargain, as he did last week over Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway Co., it's in the interest of the Government-which is supposedly all the people. He is tough, shrewd, tricky as ever. And the list of Jones-directors, Jones-managers, Jones-chairmen, Jones-presidents grows & grows. All this he is forgiven...
Into the mails last week went Montgomery Ward's regular annual bargain catalogue (good until Feb. 28). It met a roughly 10% cut announced two days earlier by Sears, Roebuck (except on refrigerators). Although leather prices have risen 10% since August, the catalogue's shoe prices are down around 10%. Grey-goods prices have risen 15%, but its cotton sheet and print items are down around 14%. Farm prices have risen 6% since August, and these reductions should give the farm section of the mail-order customers a powerful lift in buying power...
...lower their retail prices in the face of higher wholesale prices because they began covering their needs through the first half of 1941 before price rises started. All through 1940's second half, they had manufacturers rushing delivery on the long-range orders they had placed at bargain prices. Meanwhile, department stores, who mainly had had less foresight, had to pay spot prices for rush orders in rising markets, and raise their own prices. The next question is whether Sears and Ward will have to raise their prices as they reorder in a rising market...