Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United Electrical Workers' Jirn Matles arrived, brandishing a contract from Westinghouse, with the same 15? raise U.E. had gotten from General Motors five days before. Walter Reuther arrived, with a similar offer from G.M., but still holding...
...nationwide strike deemed necessary by the telephone workers, contrasted with the satisfactory contracts concluded in the steel and automobile industries, is a timely illustration of the fact that a strong management and a strong union hesitate to tangle, and will employ attrition only when other measures fail to secure accord; while if one party is materially weaker, it must use every weapon at its command to gain a fair contract. Congress could make no sadder error than to become impatient and destroy the balance that labor and management seem to have hit upon after years of trial and error...
...wage increases-to insure uninterrupted production-without raising prices. It looked as though the pattern would work out at around 10 to 15? an hour. Washington heard that Big Steel would hold its price line, despite such an increase. In Detroit, General Motors agreed to a year's contract with an average 15?-an-hour hike for 30,000 electrical workers, with the implication that price rises would not follow...
...move in and he fought them. He assigned a hard-faced ex-sailor, Harry Bennett, to guard his empire. Heads were cracked. In 1932 four jobless marchers were killed outside the Rouge plant. He defied the New Deal. But in 1941, he capitulated. He signed a union-shop contract, something of which even Walter Reuther in his wildest moments had not dreamed...
...chap hauled into traffic court for driving through a red light and then being sentenced to the electric chair. If this is the Chandler type of justice, then the club owners could make a good investment for themselves by buying up the remainder of his [$250,000] contract...