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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the big Depression of the 1930s, Cleveland Press reporters took one 15% pay slash, then two more of 10% each. The National Recovery Administration limited the work week to 40 hours, but newsmen were left out. Instead, reporters got a 16-point "firing code" that let its authors, the American Newspaper Publishers Association, fire a man for swearing or wasting copy paper. A survey by the infant American Newspaper Guild revealed that a reporter with 20 years' experience was paid an average $38 a week, about half what the unionized printers got, and Alex Crosby, news editor...
...Atlantis, crisscrossing the Atlantic and doing an oceanographer's chores-trailing thermometers at varying depths, testing water for density and salinity. In 1940 he became director of Woods Hole, saw U.S. oceanography transformed into a Naval auxiliary. For some reason, neither the German nor the Japanese navies ever got in touch with their oceanographers, who were excellent. "This made a hell of a difference in World War II," says Iselin...
Through the medium of a calmly worded letter from the White House, the U.S. last week got a last-minute reprieve from a nationwide steel strike. The negotiations were deadlocked, and both sides were bracing for a June 30 walkout, when President Eisenhower wrote to United Steelworkers President David McDonald, giving the union a face-saving way to postpone a strike that neither labor nor management wants. Wrote the President: "I suggest to both parties to this dispute that they continue to bargain without interruption of production until all of the terms and conditions of a new contract are agreed...
...look into the issues. Arthur J. Goldberg, the union's general counsel, phoned Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell in Washington while McDonald's let ter was still on the way, told him what was in it. Mitchell, who had been keeping in touch with both sides, got together with Vice President Nixon and White House Counsel Gerald Morgan and worked out a reply. Then he called the union, told it what to expect. Ike turned down McDonald's request for a fact-finding board because, he said, he has authority to do so only in emergencies (with...
...unrealistic policy, adopted entirely as a bargaining point-though they also feel that the industry is in a much better position to take a strike than in 1956. Up to now, both sides have spent so much time arguing the issues in public that they have not got down to any serious bargaining. The President's letter was calculated to give them the time to do just that, and brought fresh hope for a no-strike settlement...