Word: fruitlessness
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...American worker to decide for himself whether he wants to join a union and to remain a member of a union." Here was a stalemate, and there was nothing that the Mediation Board could do about it. On July 26 the CIO stated that further negotiations "would be fruitless"; and, on August 6, it sent a strike notice to the company while at the same time telling the press that it would like, more than anything else, to have the government take over the yards. Five days later, seeing no other alternative, the company offered the yard to the Navy...
...this sort of situation continues to develop in company after company, unions and private managers must either capitulate to make way for permanent government control, or they must come to the conclusion that "further negotiations would not be fruitless...
Lack of such information, gathered and used by one responsible agency, caused the endless, fruitless arguments which snarled the whole first year of defense. The lack accounted for steel and aluminum shortages which cropped up right after the Office of Production Management had declared them impossible. It created a long crossfire between Transportation Commissioner Ralph Budd, who thought rail capacity was lovely, and New Deal economists who thought it was lousy. It was still apparent last week in such unintelligible mazes as the Eastern Seaboard oil situation...
Thanks to Talleyrand's principles, says Ferrero, "in 24 hours a definitive peace was made, a peace for which the Revolution had spent twenty years of fruitless search; and in 24 hours the deadly circle of fear creating abuse of force, which in turn augments the fear, was broken...
June 11-Sir Stafford Cripps returns to London, the intimation being that his efforts to get any sort of understanding with Stalin have been fruitless...