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Lyndon Johnson does not often get publicly angry at labor, but he was coldly furious last week. Object of his wrath: the striking longshoremen, who had rebuffed two presidential pleas to return to work, were in the fifth week of a senseless strike that halted the nation's waterborne commerce from Maine to Texas. Not only was continuation of the strike "totally unjustified," said the President, but "the injury to the economy has reached staggering proportions...
...senselessness of the strike lay in the fact that most of the locals of the International Longshoremen's Association, beginning with the pace-setting New York local, had accepted new four-year contracts in recent weeks. But negotiations dragged on in Galveston and Miami-and I.L.A. President Thomas W. Gleason kept all his men off the job while waiting for unions everywhere to settle...
Education is a wonderful thing, but a $750 million education is expensive by any standards. That is the estimated cost to the U.S. economy of the longshoremen's eleven-day walkout, which broke last week when New York longshoremen voted 2 to 1 to accept a new contract amounting to an 80?-an-hour package over four years. Education was at the heart of the matter, since the longshoremen had first turned down the new contract without really knowing what it was all about, gone on strike, and decided to approve the contract in a new vote only after...
With New York's 24,000 longshoremen returning to the docks to resume work, the rest of the nation's 60,000 longshoremen were almost certain to fall in line in short order...
When the shippers' contract came up in October, the longshoremen-naturally-voted to reject it and go out on strike; that strike ended after a court order for 80 days of cooling-off, followed by a 22-day no-strike extension. When longshoremen rejected Gleason's plea to accept the contract and walked out, the union hurriedly launched something called "Operation Facts" in an effort to sell them on the contract before calling another ballot. Union officials obviously felt that most dockworkers did not know what they were rejecting. Gleason went on a radio program to answer questions...