Word: dring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With that kind of support A.T. & T.'s assistant vice president and chief negotiator, George S. Dring, had been able to stand rock-solid until the strike began to crumble. The first chunk had broken off when two Chicago affiliates kicked over the traces and returned for a $4-a-week raise. Then four independent New York unions settled for the same figure and went back through N.F.T.W. picket lines. When N.F.T.W. President Joe Beirne conceded the end of his hopes for an industry-wide settlement and disbanded his National Policy Committee, the 30-day walkout collapsed with...
Negotiator Dring promptly came to terms with 23,000 long-distance operators in 42 states for an average increase of $4.40, and the rush was on. Freed from policy-committee control, locals signed up all across the Midwest; with Southern Bell; with Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone in Maryland. By week's end nearly 50% of the strikers had agreed to weekly wage boosts averaging $3 to $4. Picket lines of Western Electric installation men still kept most of them from the job, still prolonged the official end of the strike, but for the N.F.T.W. it was all over...