Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tactics. But Lewis was not to be quieted by that one. He merely applied to the Krug-Lewis agreement a fateful clause from the U.M.W.'s 1945 contract with the private operators. That clause permitted either signer to reopen negotiations after ten days' notice, to bargain for 15 days, and to cry "no contract" five days after the bargaining stopped. Cap Krug contended that the clause had been abrogated by the 1946 agreement with the Government. Lewis said it had not-and he had gained a great tactical advantage when, by an election eve strike threat...
...demanded an end to "unilateral" interpretations of the Krug-Lewis contract by the Government, insisting that they be made jointly by the union and the Government. For a trading point, he also asked for a half-hour instead of a 15-minute lunch period...
Before these thoughts had had time to sink in, Lewis gave notice that the Krug-Lewis contract would end on Nov. 20. Once again, the historic miners' policy of "no contract, no work" spelled strike...
...next maneuvers were stronger. After a Sunday session with his aides, Attorney General Clark screwed up his courage, went to the courts and got a temporary injunction restraining Lewis from ending his contract for at least nine days. Whether or not the miners would pay any attention to the injunction remained to be seen (at week's end, 32,000 had already walked out). If the injunction failed to stop Lewis, the Government would have but one move left-to invoke the Smith-Connally Act, and see if it could be enforced...
Corn-Hog Program. Henry Wallace once told him that an acre of Iowa hybrid corn yielded far more than ordinary corn, and Nelson Rockefeller never forgot. This week he was to sign his first commercial contract with Brazil's only hybrid producer, Agroceres Limited of São Paulo. It would call for a minority investment of $200,000, and seed loans to the company, which would sell hybrid seed corn to farmers, and to other companies that wished to start production...