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...Last time" was the spring of 1973, when Phase III wage and price controls were in effect and the U.R.W. signed a contract providing a 6.2% maximum annual pay and benefits increase and containing no cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) provision. Since then, prices have risen so fast that the rubber workers, who now make an average of $5.50 an hour, have found that their purchasing power has slumped 8% despite the raises. Most galling, auto workers, whose pay scales the rubber workers have traditionally paralleled, negotiated their 1973 contract after Phase III had expired, and pushed their pay scales...
Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, contributed $1000--the maximum amount permissible to any one candidate under federal law--to Rep. Morris K. Udall's presidential campaign in the beginning of March...
...card without which a man cannot get a job in a lumber camp, he can harass his opponents. Over matters of importance such as a land dispute, he may hold the entire house to ransom, if he is careful. But he must not overplay his hand. While gaining the maximum of moral leverage he must appear to pursue only the common interest. The external powers are much easier to handle, being remote. If the headman makes an occasional respectful visit to the district officer without having to be summoned first, then he will immediately make an impression as a cooperative...
...track team, training circuits along the Charles can have even more deleterious effects. Their maximum output will be rapidly diminished due to elevated carbon monoxide blood levels. Furthermore, the team risks the same long term health risks as the hockey players, coronary disease and heart amythmias...
...contract expired. Union President Frank Fitzsimmons, who dearly wants to be re-elected in June, had been pushed by the rank-and-file to hold out for stiff terms. Under the last contract, the Teamsters received a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) that was "capped" at a maximum of 11? per hour in any year. That limitation, the union reckoned, cost its members a total of 53? in their hourly wages, which averaged $7.18 to $7.33 when the contract ran out. Hence among the union's final demands in last week's bargaining was an uncapped COLA clause...