Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost all of John Lewis' 400,000 soft-coal miners were back at work this week with the best contract in their history. His 75,000 anthracite miners had revamped their own unexpired contract to bring it into line. Not only had Lewis won more than twice the wage gains of other labor leaders, he had also punched a yawning hole in the Taft-Hartley...
Certainly not John Lewis, was the inference, and there was evidence to support it. First, he had forced the operators to knock the old no-strike clause out of the coal contract. That would prevent any damage suits for breach of contract under the Taft-Hartley Act. Then, to make sure that mine operators would not go running to the NLRB for help, he had wangled a provision that disputes would be settled in union-management conference...
...knew best how to do that. And despite his sweetly reasonable air, it was testified that Papa would indeed put a merchant out of business, if he did not go along with him. Fred H. Vahlsing, wholesale fruit-&-vegetable jobber, testified that when he refused to sign a union contract in 1945, Papa had forced him to shut up shop. Out-of-town members of Papa's union had to pay his local an "unloading fee" of from $2.50 to $14.28 on any truck they drove into New York. One Congressman estimated that these fees added $21,600 daily...
Confronting the Redbook committee which will be selected temporarily on the basis of past experience from the now resident members of the Class of '51 will be the job of choosing a class photographer, signing a contract with a printing concern and mapping out tentative layouts...
...shrewd. Recently he lost around $125,000 on a zinc mine. However, he expects to make up much of the loss on his Mexican deal. Already he has shipped 1,000 mules, has another 1,000 ready to go. He figures on filling the rest of his contract long before Congress gets around to doing anything about mules...