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Wall Street wonders, though, how Burr will mesh a traditional, highly unionized airline with People's unorthodox structure and style. Says Robert Joedicke, an airline expert for Shearson Lehman Bros.: "Running a company with labor unions on one side of the house and no unions on the other side is going to be tricky. Under those circumstances, collective bargaining can be contagious." In the merger agreement, Burr pledged to operate Frontier as a separate company until 1990. Says he: "Over the next five years, we'll try to convince the Frontier people of our way of doing things...
...their characters and story, not very much. The only bar to their happiness is the reappearance in Emma's life of her shiftless former husband Bobby Jack (Brian Kerwin), who represents bad values as plainly and as boringly as they represent good ones. But Director Martin Ritt seems to labor under the delusion that Murphy's Romance requires patient and delicate explication. Or maybe he is a city slicker seduced by the languid rhythms of bucolic life. For his camera just hunkers down, awhittlin' and aspittin' and oafishly gawking at these less than astonishing goings-on. Field is perky, Garner...
...LABOR Back to the Pits in Anger...
...gyrate, jerk, bend and quake." Bethel's growing prestige strengthened Niebuhr's hand when he took on Henry Ford, castigating the legendary automaker and other industrialists. He ended up a thoroughgoing Christian Socialist, evoking the biblical prophets and a bit of Marx as he thundered against the exploitation of labor...
...commission, headed by Federal Judge Irving R. Kaufman, charged that mobsters are "increasingly using labor unions as a tool to obtain monopoly power in some industries." It said the Teamsters, the International Longshoremen's Association, the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union and the Laborers' International Union are all "substantially influenced and/or controlled by organized crime...