Word: labor
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...Hopes. Everything, in fact, seemed to be going the Reds' way. Under the skilled hand of Secretary-General Dipa Nusantara Aidit, the P.K.I, had risen from virtual oblivion after a 1948 coup attempt to a membership of 3,000,000-not including the 14 million members of its labor and youth fronts. At the suggestion of Chou Enlai, Sukarno had given the green light for a massive People's Militia, which the Communists intended to use to contain the army-their only possible rival in any struggle for power. In addition, they were infiltrating the army...
President Johnson announced the formation of the Emergency Board in late April: following the provision of the Railway Labor Act, the three man board spent a month studying the issues before making recommendations. Then followed a 30-day waiting period, also specified by the law, during which futile attempts were made at a compromise. When that period expired Friday, the union struck...
Until this dispute, Neustadt has had relatively little experience in labor relations. He was a general assistant during one of the large United Mine Workers strikes in 1949-50, but his most famous work is a series of three private reports he prepared for President Kennedy on the problems of starting a new administration. He is also the author of Presidential Power...
What worried Wilson was a subtler point in the workings of industrial democracy. Unlike any other major pressure group, the Reds throw into a labor dispute "an efficient and disciplined industrial apparatus," said Wilson, "controlled from Communist Party headquarters." He noted that there was no major strike anywhere in Britain in which this apparatus was not involved, and that the Reds had officers "ready to operate in any situation where industrial troubles are developing." As a result, the Communists often seized the leadership of the strikers from their moderate elements. That, he said, had happened in the seamen...
...million. There was no reason not to, since the seamen had obtained nearly everything they wanted: a reduction of the work week to 40 hr. by next June (meaning more overtime), plus the promise of a whopping 48 days of annual leave. The settlement will increase the shipowners' labor costs at least 9.5% over a two-year period, shattering Wilson's 3.5% annual-increase guideline against inflation. Even so, the Communists and many of the more militant union members were still not satisfied, and might vent their unhappiness with wildcat strikes on some docks...