Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program to protect the nation from large-scale crippling strikes. He has yet to propose such legislation. Last week, faced with one of the nation's recurring rail crises, he pledged at a press conference to propose a workable formula that would exclude compulsory arbitration so hated by labor. Next day the President produced a plan that would astutely avert a strike-without eliminating compulsory arbitration...
...fell to Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz to produce a salable euphemism. With bureaucratic finesse, he described the new plan as "mediation to finality." The term did not mollify A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who promised "vigorous" opposition...
...avoid such perennial disruptions-in railroads as well as other crucial industries-would be for Johnson to act on his broader promise to propose legislative safeguards against any strike that jeopardized the national welfare. He has failed to do so, presumably for fear of offending big labor. But neither Congress nor the country is in any mood to tolerate a walkout as damaging as last year's airlines strike. Perhaps sensing this, Johnson said last week that he was renewing his "search for a just and general solution to emergency strike or lockout problems." By the White House clock...
...Sixty days under the Railway Labor Act, 20 days more under special legislation and an additional 47 days, to June 19, under an emergency measure enacted last week...
...trial, Tempia's attorney duly objected that Miranda had voided his confession. Even so, the confession was admitted, and Tempia was sentenced to six months' hard labor, loss of pay, reduction in rank and a bad-conduct discharge. In reversing his conviction, the Court of Military Appeals ruled that from now on G.I.s are entitled to free counsel before any questioning starts...