Word: opm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fact of the matter was that the dispute had grown progressively worse with mishandling. Month ago, OPM officials thought they had ended disputes in Pacific shipbuilding when they got shipyards and A.F. of L. international officers and metal-trades councils: 1) to agree to a standard wage scale, 2) to outlaw strikes and lockouts for two years. Bethlehem Steel, which operates the largest two yards in the area, although it put the terms of the agreement into effect, declined to sign. So did A.F. of L. machinists, who denied the right of their international officers to sign for them...
...hourly wage of $1.15 in other San Francisco machine shops, moved against the shipyards, demanding the same rate. The shipyards logically argued that they had agreed in the master pact to pay $1.12 and could not pay more if they wanted to, without violating their contract with OPM. But the machinists particularly wanted to force Bethlehem to sign the master agreement. They struck. Out with them went C.I.O. machinists from the other side of the Bay. Picket lines stopped other, nonstriking craftsmen, and eleven Bay yards were tight shut...
While California's Governor Olson held conference and OPM's Eli Leslie Oliver looked around for a formula by which unhappy machinists could back down without losing face, and a Senate Committee investigating the defense program threatened to call disputants to Washington, West Coast Communists slyly sprinkled salt in wounds, did what they could to prolong the ruckus. Still stranded on this labor shoal at week's end were a total $500,000,000 worth of Navy contracts (27 destroyers, four cruisers, 43 auxiliaries) and a Maritime Commission program of 74 freighters and three passenger-cargo ships...
...safety valve for some of the businessmen, economists, laborites at work on U.S. defense in Washington is the National Planning Association. More of a seminar than an association, NPA gives such men as OPM's Deputy Production Director William L. Batt, Labor Bureau Statistician and Machine-Tool Expert A. Ford Hinrichs, the Federal Reserve Board's (and Harvard's) Alvin Hansen a chance to get together, pool ideas. Published last week was a caustic NPA summary of what was talked about and concluded at a recent session...
...Batt hastened to explain that what he might say or hear at NPA bullfests had no connection with what he did at his OPM desk...