Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Canada, Iceland and Norway. While fully aware of the domestic problem, explained the President, "I am ... reluctant to impose a barrier to our trade with friendly nations"-and especially with nations whose "economic strength is of strategic importance to us." Moreover, "I am not persuaded that [the tariff hike] would constitute a sound step in resolving [the domestic industry's] difficulties"-at the heart of which, Administration spokesmen have pointed out, are declining U.S. catches caused by such made-in-the-U.S. problems as overfishing in local waters and aging vessels...
...rationing is already hurting new-car sales. One thousand auto workers have been laid off, and another 56,000 have had their working hours cut. Macmillan also raised the tax on oil and gasoline to an alltime high of 49? a gallon. This increase, together with a simultaneous price hike by the oil companies, drove the retail price of gasoline as high as 92? an imperial gallon...
When the United Steelworkers' convention last September took up a resolution to raise members' dues from $3 to $5 a month-and incidentally hike President David McDonald's pay from $40,000 to $50,000-the union president twice reminded the delegates that he did not want the money, but carefully added: "It's only a penny a man per year." After three votes -by voice, show of hands, finally by standing-McDonald declared the motion "carried by an overwhelming vote." He refused permission for a roll-call vote, and delegates went home grumbling that...
...last week the dues protest (TIME, Nov. 26) had snowballed into the biggest revolt in the Steelworkers' 20-year history. Spontaneously, over 100 of the union's 2,750 locals have passed resolutions for a special convention to rescind the dues hike, among them the 20,000-man Local 1014 at U.S. Steel's Gary (Ind.) plant, the Steelworkers' biggest unit. Even McDonald's home local 1272 at Jones & Laughlin's southside plant in Pittsburgh passed the protest resolution...
...midweek the harassed steelworkers went to court, asked for an injunction to force Dolores to return the keys to the union's files. They also indicated that they would forgive and forget if Dolores would come back, even offered to hike her weekly wage from...