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...city needed his attention more than Calcutta (pop. 3,000,000), the steaming factory and port of eastern India. The city's labor force was in an ugly mood: some 3,000 civil servants had been on strike for higher bonus payments, and the leftist labor unions were hotly agitating for a general work stoppage...
...same wage and fringe benefits obtained from Chrysler: earlier retirement, increased pensions, continuation of the annual productivity raise and more paid vacation time. In addition, there was, as Reuther phrased it, "attractive chocolate frosting to the happy-birthday cake we got at Chrysler"-a $25 to $100 annual Christmas bonus for Ford's 130,000 hourly-rate employees, probably beginning...
...Bauer last winter and grinned: "Hello, Hitler!" Gentile now labors for last-place Kansas City. Outfielder Willie Kirkland showed up three days late for spring training. Bauer fined him $100 for each day, then sold him to Washington-a comedown that could cost Willie approximately $10,000 in bonus money if the Orioles win the pennant. Three young players who missed a midnight curfew by 20 minutes got off with lighter sentences: two laps around the field, double time. "Just remember," said Bauer, "if you ream me, I got the last ream...
...took one look and said, 'Damn, you've growed.' " Menendez instantly offered him a tryout with the Quincy, Ill. Gems, a Class B Yankee farm club. Terms: $175 a month, a $25 raise if he made the team, plus a $250 bonus. Bauer went home to pack...
Frazee is sitting tight on his insistence that Free Press pressmen get time and a half for rolling the Sunday edition. To the publishers, the demand seems ; outrageous. No morning paper in the country pays that bonus, and the morning Free Press is loath to set a precedent. The union demand is loosely based ! on what is called a "double shift," common enough on evening papers with Sunday editions, where pressmen must roll both the Saturday and the Sunday paper on the same...