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...review Judge Pine's ruling, and continued Government possession of the steel mills. But, until the court hands down a decision, it ordered a freeze of wages and other working conditions, unless the companies and union agreed on changes. And if they could not break the bargaining deadlock, the seizure issue would be finally decided by the nation's highest court...
...Workers International Union, Orie Albert ("Jack") Knight, 49, began pleading for unity last fall, soon smoothed over the jealousies and jurisdictional rivalries that had kept the oil unions apart. He is still moving slowly; much of the industry remains to be organized. But as he presided over the deadlock at his Denver headquarters last week, Jack Knight plainly looked like a man hopefully trying on the crown and testing the strength of a new labor kingdom...
Negotiations have now reached a deadlock, with all the aces on the table. The Council's poll found that resident students don't begrudge a small violation of the equality principle. Although Lamont is softening, the old arguments are bound to appear next fall. The Council's vote of approval is needed to boost...
...deadlock tightened, tempers flared higher. Congress seethed with rancorous argument over the President's highhanded seizure of steel. Ohio's Republican Representative George H. Bender asked for a bipartisan committee to consider impeachment of Harry Truman. The Senate Labor Committee (favorable to the Administration) began hearings on a bill that would regulate Government seizures. The Senate Judiciary Committee (unfavorable to the Administration) prepared to rake over the constitutionality of Truman's action. With the Administration still backing him up, Steelworker Boss Philip Murray berated the companies, and called for the full WSB score, down to the last...
...Harry Truman did not see that the blame for the deadlock rested on all three parties. The man who two years ago thought he had no authority to seize the coal mines now claimed the power to take over the steel mills "by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States." Then, in a flood of intemperate language unmatched since his rawhiding of the striking railroad workers in 1946,* the President launched into an angry dressing-down of the whole steel industry...