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...melt the dead lock. The industry claimed that it could not possibly boost its offer of a 40.6? hourly wage increase for a 35-month contract without raising prices, stirring Johnson's ire and losing sales to foreign steelmakers and competitive materials such as aluminum, plastics and cement. The steelworkers' Abel, who got elected earlier this year on a promise of plumper contracts, was equally adamant in refusing to scale down his demand...
There's a cement octopus sits in Sacramento, I think...
Though the President was clearly delighted that the crucial wage rise in steel equalled 3.2% (see THE NATION), he could not take much satisfaction in other recent settlements. Over the past twelve months, pay increases of between 3.5% and 4% have been won in such major industries as aluminum, cement and glass. Container workers won a 3.5% increase, auto workers a 4.8% boost, California construction workers a 6.1% raise for each of the next three years. Last week's maritime-strike settlement, while adhering to the 3.2% formula for its first year, will actually hike the cost of employing...
...than helicopters and far more versatile than hydrofoils, the amphibious craft can cozy right up to an airplane, load up and transport its 15 passengers to a terminal on the other side of the bay so smoothly that they will not know when they are riding over cement or sea. Not that the ship is a veritable magic carpet. The engine makes so much noise that passengers have difficulty carrying on a conversation, and the forced air kicks up so much dust and spray that the visibility through the windows is almost zero. But the engineers are learning fast. Early...
...visiting youths poured, stumbled and fell out of taverns, chanting "We want booze! We want beer!" When a handful of police officers tried to quiet them down, someone shouted, "Hey, punk! We're going to take over the place!" and the riot was on. Armed with chunks of cement, rocks, beer bottles and splintered wood, they charged the cops, then smashed in the windows of cars and lighted a bonfire in front of one of the taverns. Police had to be called in from three towns, along with National Guardsmen, before peace was restored...