Word: panels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Akron rubber workers, striking because a pay raise of 8? an hour recommended by a WLB panel had been reduced by the Board itself to 3?. President Roosevelt sent a stern telegram which damned the strike as "inexcusable," curtly ordered: "Return to work at once." The strikers went back. They had lost in five days enough time to have produced some $17,000,000 worth of plane deicers, self-sealing gas tanks, combat tires, life rafts, anti-aircraft guns, gas masks. They still demanded...
WASHINGTON--An emergency board of the National Railway Labor Panel recommended to President Roosevelt today that the more than 1,000,000 non-operating railroad employes be granted a general wage increase of eight cents an hour, 12 cents less than they had demanded. The raise would be retroactive...
...Almost precisely as if there had never been a strike, WLB went doggedly ahead with its consideration of the dispute, reconvened its fact-finding panel to hear evidence. John L. Lewis and his United Mine Workers pointedly ignored the hearing, which thus went on in a vacuum...
...decision in their favor, were delighted to accept the order. The U.M.W., with a real grievance lying back of their demand for a $2 a day pay increase and pay on a "portal to portal" basis, defied the order and refused to appear before the WLB's fact-finding panel or to order strikers back to work. What lay behind the mineworkers' refusal is evident from their statement to Miss Perkins that, "The ukase of a discredited political agency is no substitute for free collective bargaining." This, and other statements which show the miners as feeling pretty certain that most...
...serve as photographer-artist for the Army's weekly, Yank. For Yank he turned out occasional comic strips called "G.I. Joe" until he got his lieutenancy (commissioned officers cannot be members of Yank's staff). But Dave Breger's best-known creation is the daily panel called Private Breger...