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Ryan to Lyon. The signal for peace on the East Coast came one morning last week during a midwatch hour in a New York hotel. Cyrus S. Ching, federal mediator and peacemaker, had put the shipowners in one room and the A.F.L. longshoremen in another. For the better part of the night Ching's aides shuttled from the weary group of operators, presided over by New York Shipping Association Chairman John V. Lyon, to the grim group of 125 labor delegates, presided over by Longshore Boss Joseph P. Ryan. Around 3 a.m., the operators gave...
...terms included a 13? boost to $1.88 an hour (it was $1.25 in 1945), and 19½? to $2.82 an hour overtime. The boosts were retroactive to Aug. 21, 1948. The new one-year contract will run to Sept. 30, 1949. Other terms gave longshoremen a better break in their working hours and vacation plan, and guaranteed a welfare fund to be worked out by a joint management-labor committee. The welfare and vacation provisions were what worried shipping men, who said they had taken "an old-fashioned shellacking...
...disregarded a previous agreement which Ryan had made, accepted the terms by an overwhelming vote. Some 250 ships in ports from Maine to Virginia, tied up for 18 days at an estimated loss of $30,000,000 a day in New York City alone, began to move. Longshoremen began loading some $36,000,000 worth of piled-up Marshall Plan cargoes...
...contract they negotiated was for an unprecedented three years. It gave longshoremen a 15? boost to $1.82 an hour straight time, $2.73 an hour overtime. It provided better grievance machinery and continued the hiring halls until the courts decided whether they were legal under the Taft-Hartley law. After Congress rewrites the law, the hiring halls will probably be legal anyhow...
...railroaders and the striking longshoremen-who seemed near a settlement this week-were just about the last of the big unions still haggling over their 1948 wage boosts. The rest of labor seemed ready to go to the well again. Arriving in Portland, Ore. for the C.I.O. convention, the United Automobile Workers' President Walter Reuther lowered the first bucket...