Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only One Compromise. The Giants got a bargain. Almost 38, Jackie Robinson is far slower afield and less powerful at bat (.275) than in his heyday of six successive over-.300 seasons. But for upwards of $30,000, plus a journeyman left-handed pitcher, the sixth-place Giants bought one of baseball's alltime great figures, a pro good enough to make his mark in the record books while carrying a blackman's special burden on his back...
...career from boyish leanings on older masters to the unpredictable individualist of old age who still defies simple analysis. The book does this in parallel critical and biographical commentaries that are expertly illustrated by the pictures appropriate to each page. A valuable attempt and this year's real bargain among art books...
Closing the Gap. Estrangement between the union's officials and its rank-and-file becomes especially hard to overcome in the mammoth organizations that bargain for hundreds of thousands of members. It is virtually impossible to make the individual feel that he has a real voice in establishing the wages or conditions under which he works. The increasing popularity of long-term contracts is bound to make this sense of detachment even more pervasive. All this points up the need for improved channels of communication between union leaders and members, plus a broadening of union functions in education, recreation...
Crocodile Tears. In his drive toward legalized larceny, Mac founds a chain of B. (for Bargain) Shops that sell cut-rate goods to the poor. To supply them, he turns his gang into a kind of quartermaster looting corps which burgles other shops by night. In plots and counterplots of Chaplinesque strategy and Napoleonic execution, Mac reduces his competitors to satraps in his own trade empire and is elected a bank director into the bargain...
...devisive issues involved in the strike were likely to be in and out of the courts and before federal mediators for weeks to come. Still to be settled is the union's demand-vigorously opposed by the shipping association on the ground that it can only bargain for shippers in its own area-that the I.L.A. be given a master contract covering all Atlantic and Gulf ports. Beyond that, the I.L.A. and the shippers are still far apart in negotiations over wages, length of contract, etc. Nonetheless, this week some 250-odd ships that had been immobilized...