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...Emergency Situation." Last spring, when the machinists' strike seemed in evitable, the President invoked the 40-year-old Railway Labor Act to postpone the walkout so that a three-man presidential emergency board could study the dispute. Chaired by Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse, a partisan of organized labor, the board ultimately recommended a wage-benefit increase of 3.6%, a notch above L.B.J.'s 3.2% anti-inflationary wage-price guideline. Johnson was pleased nonetheless, urged both labor and management to accept the board's terms. The five airlines-Northwest, TWA, Eastern, United and National-agreed, but the I.A.M...
...negotiators refused to budge, in view of the carriers' record profits. Even though the machinists were ignoring his express wishes, the President flatly refused to intervene -though, in the nature of politics, he might have proved much less reluctant if the intransigent party had been management rather than labor. In an election year, the Administration is particularly leary of further antagonizing Big Labor, which has already voiced resentment over the Democrats' failure to get the bills that labor most coveted through the 89th Congress...
...Arbitration. It was by any definition an inflationary boost. Johnson's woodshed rationale was that its effect would somehow be neutralized by the airlines' hefty 1966 profits, which he preferred to call "productivity." The President explained on TV: "Unit labor costs in the air-transportation industry will continue to decline, thus assuring that this settlement will not contribute to any increase in the prices the public pays." This gloss did not cover the fact that the major airlines have won federal approval for six rate increases over the past decade, and in each case a major factor...
...revolution in the Pentagon. A Rand specialty is a sophisticated application of "systems analysis," approaching highly complex projects by interrelating each constituent factor. In Pentagon terms, for example, it means considering an Air Force demand for planes in terms of everything from the cost to the taxpayer to the labor skills involved to the amount of aluminum available. It has proved so successful that the "Rand way of thinking" has become a major operating influence throughout the Government...
Embroiled as he was with the trade unions, dissidents in his own party and the Opposition over his controversial plans to rescue the pound, Wilson deliberately chose to make things hotter by scheduling a debate on Labor's controversial bill to renationalize Britain's major privately owned steel companies. He apparently reckoned that the steel-nationalization issue-one of the Labor Party's surviving oldtime doctrinaire goals-would unite his divided party. But Veteran Labor M.P. George Strauss, who in 1948 piloted the Labor Government's original steel-nationalization bill through Commons, was critical...