Word: docked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British press stories sparked the official inquiry that nabbed Clough. How could the papers have been so knowing without leaks from the Admiralty itself? Nor was Clough's conviction likely to end the inquiry. A whole squad of other reporters is waiting to appear in the dock...
Newspaper accounts said that the dock workers' pay increases, including fringe benefits, amounted to five per cent. The President's Council of Economic Advisers has recommended holding pay raises in line with annual increases in productivity, in this case about three per cent...
...example, the teamsters who haul cargo to the docks and the sailors who run the ships both have $100-per-month pension programs, with money provided by employers. Even the longshoremen on the West Coast receive $100. But the dock workers who load the cargo onto the ships got $85 per month," Healy said...
...Merseyside, amid the dingy jungle of slums that surrounds Liverpool, unemployed dock workers pick through garbage tips in hopes of finding salable salvage. Shipyards are working at half capacity; 15 new factories are shuttered. In the northeastern shipbuilding cities of Hartlepool and West Hartlepool, 13.7% of the male work force is idle. The last new ship built there was completed 18 months...
Since the strike-delaying provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act had been exhausted in the dock dispute, the President sought to unscramble the tie-up by naming a special three-man mediation board headed by Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse, who served as an arbitrator in West Coast dock strikes before World War II. The mission assigned to Morse by the President was to settle as quickly as possible the last remaining issue between the longshoremen and the shippers-a union demand for a wages-and-benefits package totaling 61? an hour over the next two years. Flying...