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...industry's tougher stand toward labor, management aims to pluck some of the featherbeds. A chief cause of the current steel strike is management's insistence on winning more control over local working practices, partly motivated by the desire to wipe out what Chief Steel Negotiator R. Conrad Cooper called "loafing, featherbedding and unjustifiable idle time." The railroad industry, worst feathered of the lot, has pledged an all-out assault against make-work when contract talks open this fall. In the oil industry, the American Oil Co. has taken a month-long strike to end featherbedding that costs...
Instead, the President ordered the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service's Director Joseph F. Finnegan to help work out a voluntary settlement. After separate sessions with the steelworkers and with the Big Steel negotiators, headed by U.S. Steel's Executive Vice President R. Conrad Cooper, Finnegan was grim, saw no hope for an "easy or early solution...
Change of Climate. Management's firm policy was publicly expressed by R. Conrad Cooper, executive vice president of U.S. Steel Corp. and the industry's chief negotiator. But the man who devised it -and directed industry's strategy from the background - is Roger Miles Blough, 55, chairman of U.S. Steel Corp. Big Steel's Roger Blough (rhymes with now) is perhaps the foremost advocate of a new look in U.S. labor-management relations. He feels that the U.S. is no longer a "laboristic society," that U.S. business, after sweltering for years in a climate that considered...
...down with the heads of individual steel companies. But Blough, skilled in negotiating, has kept his alliance together. He went to great lengths to avoid appearing to run the show-though everyone knew that he did. He kept the other steel companies happy by seeking their opinions through Conrad Cooper...
Although Emily Dickinson lived, in the words of Conrad Aiken, "a life perfectly devoid of outward event," there was one great mystery about her. To an even greater degree than was common among New England mystics, she was a recluse. This, according to the most popular, though by no means only, theory, was due to an early, unsuccessful love affair with a married man. Alison's House is based on this interpretation of Miss Dickinson's life, despite the fact that Alison Stanhope, the Emily Dickinson of the play, has been dead eighteen years by the time the play takes...