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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wangled a good contract. He got control of an established medical and hospital insurance fund, levied ori payrolls, and previously controlled by the operators. But they had offered that to him, too. He got the fashionable 18½?-an-hour pay rise. The mine owners had been willing to go a cent higher. He had gotten $100 vacation pay. The operators had offered him the same figure...
...reflected in negotiations between the union and the Dominion Marine Association. At first, management accepted the eight-hour day in principle, provided the union made no other wage demands. But as the strike continued, the parties drew apart. Angrily the owners charged the union with breach of its contract. A four-day truce, tentatively accepted by the negotiators, was flatly spurned by the two biggest operators...
...season with enough carfare to get home; 2) 50% of the sale price to go to a player when he is sold to another club. Not until his union is good & strong does Murphy intend to do anything about baseball's reserve clause-the one-way contract which binds the player for his baseball career but says a club owner can fire him on ten days' notice...
Last week the State Department answered both sides. State, conscious of Russia's air monopoly in the Balkans, told T.W.A.: the U.S. is opposed to exclusive trade privileges for any one power in ex-enemy states. But if the exclusive features were taken out of the T.W.A. contract, the Department would try to see that the contract was carried out. Said State to the British: the U.S. could not force T.W.A. to share its Italian interests with B.O.A.C. However, the British could arrange with the Italian Government to form a rival company...
T.W.A.'s Frye quickly dropped the exclusive air privileges, thought it was a clear victory for T.W.A. It would be-if the Italian Cabinet passes a decree giving the contract final approval this week...