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...around many a key city in the eastern U.S. last week, cement-mixers, supplying the foundation of the nation's biggest construction boom, lay silent on their jobs. The sudden silence came after strikes were called by 17,000 United Cement, Lime and Gypsum Workers (total membership: 41,000) in 70 of the country's 160 cement plants. With kilns cooling and stockpiles quickly dwindling, contractors laid off about 20,000 construction men in New York, paralyzing work on $400 million in highways, schools, hospitals, airport facilities, piers. In Pennsylvania, expressway construction stopped on a six-mile stretch...
...Cement-union strategists began planning last year for this first all-out assault on manufacturers, aiming especially at an industry-wide blanket contract instead of the customary plant-by-plant settlement. In the dusty cement bag dumped on the negotiation tables by the union were demands for a 13?-an-hour increase (to $2.20), a 10% premium for Sunday work, four-week vacations after 30 years service, and a clause forbidding companies to hire outside service personnel when inside manpower is available...
Though a few small Midwestern plants made quick settlements, many of the larger companies, e.g., U.S. Steel's Universal Atlas Co., settled down to fight just as stubbornly as the union. A long fight may be in the making. A New York Times report speculated that cement manufacturers, looking forward to the golden days of the $50 billion federal highway program, are getting set to hike cement prices; a strike, settled in due season-with added costs-would provide just the occasion. "When the negotiations make very little headway all over," added a Government labor expert in Washington, "such...
...balked at the important but unpopular reforms on the Klein & Saks program. The Congress refused a 20% cut in government staff, and government expenses rose this year instead of dropping, as planned. It also balked at an antitrust bill to curb monopolistic, inflationary practices in the lumber, paper, cement and tobacco industries. Meanwhile, the government itself hesitated to tighten collections of income taxes, which are high in theory but evaded in practice. And the armed services continued to waste money; e.g., the Navy still keeps in commission the Almirante Latorre, probably the only relic still afloat from the 1916 Battle...
...CEMENT SHORTAGE is stalling construction jobs in Northeast, South and Midwest. Two-week-old strike by 12,000 members of United Cement, Lime & Gypsum Workers union has cut U.S. cement output by one-third...