Word: daves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many U.S. labor leaders have contented themselves with shouting their criticism from across the political chasm that separates them from the Republican Administration. Not so the C.I.O. Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald, a Democrat who has been a frequent White House visitor since Jan. 20. 1953. Last week Dave McDonald again dropped in on President Eisenhower, who likes him and respects his judgment. What McDonald had to say about the nation's economy left the President visibly impressed...
...means all economic experts agree with the Administration as to the best methods of halting recession-or with Dave McDonald as to the seriousness of the situation. Writing in this week's New York Times Magazine, for example, Harvard Economist Sumner Slichter recommends complete elimination of all the recently reduced excise taxes as the measure which would "almost certainly be sufficient to halt promptly the contraction of business." Reviewing such indexes as consumer buying, production, inventory adjustment, individual savings and housing starts, Slichter concludes that the recession is nearing an end with or without more Government aid. Says...
...DAVE BECK, boss of the big, sprawling Teamsters' Union, has set his sights on organizing Detroit's auto salesmen. Beck argues that salesmen, now paid according to dealers' profits per car, can make up to four times as much money by fighting for commissions based on the factory-delivered price of each car. Teamsters claim that 1,570 of the city's 3,000 salesmen have already paid their $10 initiation fees. Dealers hope that the move will collapse, as a similar one did some years...
...C.I.O. Steelworkers, next in line, will ask for a guaranteed annual wage when they open negotiations next month. The C.I.O. Autoworkers last week outlined the 52-week plan that they expect to demand when their contracts with car manufacturers run out next year. Dave Beck's A.F.L. Teamsters' Union, third biggest in the U.S., has already signed 29 guaranteed wage contracts, covering 2,857 workers...
...Underdog Dave Hawkins learned a new kick in a few hours last week and used it to defeat the favorite in the butterfly final of the national AAU swim meet at Yale...