Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ben Fairless and the steel industry, the settlement was a victory too. From the start, they had insisted that they must be granted a price rise to match a wage increase. Two weeks ago, Steelman passed the word that they could count on an average of $5.65 per ton. Fairless saw to it that Steelman put his word in writing at the White House. "I don't like the price increases we have to give you," snapped Harry Truman, "but I guess there is nothing else...
...hard-nosed attitude. To compensate for wage increases, Steel wanted sizable price increases. The Administration was openly boasting that Steel would get no such thing. So Steel's refusal to bargain with Phil Murray was its only lever in its bargaining with the hostile and partial Government. Said Ben Fairless in Cincinnati last November: "Whether our workers are to get a raise, and how much it will be if they do, is a matter which probably cannot be determined by collective bargaining, and will apparently have to be decided finally in Washington...
Last week, after the strike settlement, Murray's first act was to propose to Ben Fairless that together they tour U.S. steel plants to lay the base for a lasting labor-management relationship. Fairless jumped at the offer, and, as his first test, went with Murray to a meeting of the strike-scarred Steelworkers Wage Policy Committee at the Mayflower Hotel...
...Massillon, Fairless' brother, John Williams, last week agreed with Ben that the President should have invoked the Taft-Hartley Act to end the strike. The brothers' differences in surname occurred when Ben, at the age of five, was adopted by an uncle named Fairless (TIME...
Newsmen on Hearst's Chicago Herald-American remember fondly The Front Page, written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, onetime colleagues, and still never pass up an opportunity to play cops & robbers. Six weeks ago, Managing Editor Harry Reutlinger saw his chance again when a used-car dealer named Robert L. Knetzer,charged with swindling customers out of about $1,500,000 (TIME, Oct. 25, 1948), escaped from a Springfield, Ill. jail. Reutlinger called in his star crime reporter, Leroy ("Buddy") McHugh, and gave him the kind of assignment that Herald-American staffers often get but seldom succeed...