Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army had 1,192 planes, the Navy 977, but obsolescence is overtaking these craft almost as fast as the services buy new ones. Since Jan. 1, the Navy has ordered 248 planes and the Army 176, aside from last week's contract. By the end of the year the Army expects some 700 deliveries, most of them ordered bwfore...
Under the Wagner Labor Act employers have to bargain collectively, but do they have to sign written contracts? The three steel companies asserted their willingness to bargain collectively, but refused to sign anything because, they said, a contract would be followed by demands for the closed shop and the check-off of union dues. To the unions this was just a quibble. Pickets in Cleveland last week carried placards chiding the companies for refusing to buy ink. Settlement of this unsettled question may affect many a future labor crisis...
...question at issue is whether an employer legally "bargains" who: 1) may be willing to consider wage increases, for example, and even put them into effect without making any promises of how long they will last, or 2) may be willing to make a contract but not in writing, a procedure which is legal in many transactions since oral contracts are generally binding. The Labor Board has declared that if an understanding is reached in collective bargaining it must be embodied "in a binding agreement for a definite term." Senator Wagner said last week that the Act (by implication) required...
...Martin Luther Davey called his own meeting. Chairman Tom Girdler of Republic and President Frank Purnell of Youngstown declined to attend in person but sent deputies to meet with Philip Murray and John Owens of the Steel Workers. Governor Davey proposed a compromise: let the companies sign a labor contract, and let the union promise not to demand the closed shop or checkoff. The meeting was adjourned without result but another was arranged for this week...
...last year at the Democratic convention for $2.50 a copy. With the President's autograph bound in, the same book, dressed up in leather covers, was offered as a de luxe President's edition at $250 a copy. Letters went out urging people to buy, accompanied by contracts, suggestively filled out for the purchase of four copies for $1,000. In case a purchaser did not wish to keep this costly reading matter, the contract provided that he might turn over his copy to the Democratic National Committee ''for distribution by them as they...