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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first Blough & Co. demanded a contract clause saying that 2-B would not "restrict the company from improving the efficiency and economy of its operations." Last month the industry eased this demand to a proposal to submit the 2-B issue to a two-man panel (one member chosen by the industry, one by the union) with compulsory arbitration if the panel failed to reach agreement by mid-1960. McDonald refused to consider even this diluted proposal...
...case to the public. But behind the fog, the issues in the steel strike-whether an economy beset by price upcreep will be subjected to another inflationary steel settlement, whether an industry already pressed by foreign competition should accept another upthrust of wage costs, whether collective bargaining is a one-way or a two-way street-still loom in the background, confronting the U.S. Government and the U.S. public with a demand for thoughtful answers...
...Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown ("a man to be reckoned with''), New Jersey's Governor Bob Meyner ("in the spotlight of public interest"), and Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams ("in the forefront of enlightened social legislation"). Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey was "one of the forward-looking thinkers in our ranks"; Adlai Stevenson, chairman of the evening, was "an important and gifted voice in the affairs of the party and the nation"; Massachusetts' Senator Jack Kennedy was "a liberal and, in the judgment of many, a fighting liberal." But Harry Truman...
...they have solutions to all our problems," and lit into "the hothouse liberal who talks the game but doesn't play it ... Let us choose a liberal who meets the requirements of the people who know the difference between a working liberal and a talking liberal . . . I for one have no time for the Johnny-come-lately, well-fed liberals who would like to have a disproportionate voice in the party. I think you know who they are." He made it clear, in a passing swipe, that he was sore at the once-devoted New York Post, which...
...resounding proclamation got plenty of headlines, but it suffered from one basic defect: House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, the Democrats who can do most to translate the program into law, stayed far, far away from the D.A.C. session and said not a good word for its platform...