Word: make
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just because business was looking a little queasy, the U.A.W. was not going to go easy on it. Reuther came armed with studies showing, he said, that the industry could raise wages 70? an hour and still make 8% on its investment. Said Reuther in one huge gulp: "This is the time for labor to stand up and say we are getting in trouble because the little guy hasn't got enough and therefore he has to fight harder now to get what he is entitled to in order to avoid going into a depression...
While the steelworkers met in Pittsburgh to authorize a strike, the President put on the squeeze. In identical wires to the six major steel companies, he proposed a board of inquiry which would make recommendations on settling the dispute. U.S. Steel Corp.'s stiff-necked Ben Fairless turned it down flat. The Taft-Hartley Act, he pointed out, "is still the law of the land," and it expressly states that a fact-finding board shall be forbidden to make recommendations. The other steelmen took the same line...
Thus isolated, U.S. Steel reluctantly gave in. Wiring his acceptance to the President, Fairless clung to one reservation: "We understand this ... to mean that there is no moral or legal obligation upon us to accept any recommendation which this board may make...
...pact carried no commitment to rearm Europe nation by nation, said Dulles firmly. Under its terms, a council and defense committee would make recommendations. "If the recommendations seem to be advantageous, I assume we will accept them. If they appear to be disadvantageous, we are certainly free to reject them ... I think it is worth something to us that there are brave people close to danger who are willing, if need be, to absorb the first shock of devastating attack ... It is not right to treat such people as mendicants." As for an armament race, "that cannot occur under...
This week the judge himself had a little confession to make: he, too, had once been a Ku Kluxer, back...