Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus reassured, the President headed back to the White House to face his new crises. On the top of the heap: conferences on the phone strike and Henry Wallace's latest sound-off (see FOREIGN RELATIONS...
Atlanta felt no more than minor inconvenience, and teachers actually found new hope for teen-age boys and girls who were driven by the shutdown from endless nightly phone communion to homework. In Kansas City, as in most struck cities, telegraph business zoomed a staggering 50 to 80%. In flooded Michigan, hurried conferences between company and union officials quickly restored emergency service to stricken areas. Radio "hams" took over part of the disaster-message burden in the devastated wake of the Texas-Oklahoma tornado (see Disaster). Denver's harassed company officials indignantly refused to deliver "Come home to lunch...
Rough & Tough. But the real snafu, the place where the phone strike began to realize its ugly potential, was in New Jersey...
...Hold the Phone. Beirne, picked by the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce as one of ten outstanding young men of 1946 for his "mature responsibility as a labor leader," had begun negotiating in January. He is a determined and militant young man, a high-school graduate, who worked as a drill-press operator, department-store clerk, went to night school and leaped into labor politics as a district union representative...
...Washington, the Administration held the phone, listening to the wrangle. Last week, as the deadline of the "impossible" walkout became imminent, Attorney General Tom Clark found a law (the Federal Communications Act) which he said gave the President the right to seize the lines in the event of a strike. Said Beirne: "He is stretching the law to the breaking point...