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...Scouts. The AEC settlement was a prime example of the way FMCS's troubleshooters head off strikes. In the past 16 months, under Director Whitley P. McCoy, 60, a former University of Alabama law professor, FMCS has handled some 21,000 disputes. Partisanship has no place in the service. McCoy, a staunch Democrat, was named to the job by President Eisenhower, and he insists that his 230 mediators be as impartial as big-league umpires. His philosophy is that the best labor-management agreements are those worked out by the parties themselves; the mediator is most useful when both...
...relax tired and angry negotiators, McCoy sometimes likes to tell a hoary old joke.* But McCoy's men can be tough, too. They sometimes keep labor and management at the table for 60 hours without a break. "If the boys get out," says one of McCoy's men, "they come back with new ideas, and the whole negotiation may collapse." Ounce of Prevention. Just as important as mediation is the FMCS's arbitration service, in which McCoy provides an impartial arbitrator to sit in judgment and hand down a decision. The Government's only role...
...Washington last week, Mediator McCoy was clearing the decks for what promises to be one of the toughest battles in years: the C.I.O.'s push for a guaranteed annual wage from the auto industry. Though negotiations will not start until spring, McCoy is already briefing three top FMCS mediators on all the facts and arguments in the case. He hopes to use the negotiations as a testing ground for one of his favorite ideas: the best way to avoid labor trouble would be through preventive mediation. He wants FMCS men to preside over the auto bargaining sessions from...
...hills of eastern Kentucky, the fight between the Kentucky Utilities Co. and public power groups has been almost as bitter as the famed Hatfield-McCoy feud. For 13 years the rural electric cooperatives and the private power company have blocked each other's expansion in the courts and before the state Public Utilities Commission. As a result, customers suffered with poor service at high cost. Last week the feud finally ended. Kentucky Utilities had a precedent-setting, ten-year agreement with 15 local cooperatives to exchange generating and transmission facilities. And the generators were turned on in a brand...
Died. Major General Frank Ross McCoy, 79, "America's soldier-diplomat," who became a troubleshooter for Presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to Hoover; after long illness; in Washington, D.C. West Pointer McCoy emerged from World War I a medal-covered brigadier. As competent in striped pants as in uniform, McCoy roamed the world on diplomatic missions for the White House, helped set up the Cuban and Philippine governments, fed the "starving Armenians" in 1919, ran Nicaraguan elections, wound up his long career in 1949, when he decided that four years on the Far Eastern Commission were "long enough for . . . that...