Word: ching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Federal Mediator Cyrus S. Ching, who hates to leave a nut uncracked, gave up on a tough one last week. He handed the coal mine dispute to the President and waited for something to happen. Nothing...
Merry Chase. The prospect of peace in steel let the U.S. Government turn its attention on John L. Lewis, whose seven-week-old soft-coal strike had passed the pinching stage and was really hurting. In Washington last week for a clandestine meeting with Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching, John L. was in a sullen but athletic mood. For 45 minutes he led newsmen on a comic-opera chase through midtown Washington, waddling through side doors and around corners like an amateur Sydney Greenstreet, climbing in & out of taxicabs, bouncing up & down in elevators...
Just what his business with Ching was, John L. was not saying. But irritable John L. was plainly anxious for a sensible settlement of his costly strike...
...Hope. Phil Murray traveled the grimy U.S. Steel belt, trying to bolster the morale of his striking followers, vowing to stick to his demand for 10?-an-hour pensions and insurance financed solely by the industry. Federal Mediator Cyrus S. Ching spent a futile week in Washington and New York City talking with steel-industry leaders...
...Ching last Wednesday invited both sides to a conciliation meeting, and Lewis replied in his usual pithy manner, "will attend." The owners also agreed, and the first session of talks was held on Friday, with no results announced. The three principals will be back at it again tomorrow, with Ching determined to effect a quick settlement...