Word: laborings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strike, the big steel companies, led by U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough, laid down a demand of their own: in return for even a modest boost in wages and fringe benefits, the union would have to agree to contract changes to "cut the cost of steelmaking." With high labor costs squeezing U.S. steel out of foreign markets (TIME, July 20), the steel companies had a solid argument for holding costs down. Revelations of corruption in the labor movement had weakened organized labor's influence. And the U.S. public was fed up with price upcreep...
...Said Labor Secretary James Mitchell as deadline loomed: "I want to urge upon the parties the fact that 1 temporary resumption of production under a Taft-Hartley injunction and a postponement of permanent settlement will solve nothing ... I would hope that, in view of the grave results that are liable to follow their continued inability to reach a permanent settlement, this final plea will make them mindful of their responsibility to their fellow citizens...
...weeks since the Democratic Congress passed the stiffest labor bill in history, the Senate-bred Democratic presidential hopefuls have seldom missed a chance to explain themselves to labor. Last week three of them (all voted for the bill) turned up at the United Automobile Workers annual convention in Atlantic City, but only one walked off with the house...
First down the ramp was Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, who agreed that the compromise 1959 Labor-Management Act (TIME, Sept. 14) "contains many unfair and unsound and one-sided provisions," promised more favorable legislation, including a boost of minimum wages from $1 to $1.25 per hour in the next session. As for his own record, he had no regrets: "Jimmy Hoffa may not approve of me, but I do not apologize for having earned his hostility." The delegates gave Kennedy a rousing, standing ovation...
...bill, proposed at the same time as Senators John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Joseph S. Clark (D-Pa.) brought up a similar measure in the Senate, is presently mired in the Education and Labor Committee. Lindsay is "not sure there's a chance of getting the bill out of committee and onto the floor for full debate...