Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...settlement on two separate tracks. On one track was the Justice Department's petition for a Taft-Hartley injunction to return the strikers to the mills for 80 days. On the other track was a resumption of bargaining between the steel companies and the United Steelworkers in Pittsburgh, while pressures mounted for settlement. The strongest pressure on the Big Steelmen came from small and medium-sized steel firms impatient for a settlement. This week the West Coast's Edgar F. Kaiser, the most impatient steelman of them all, broke the industry's united front and announced that...
...finding board reported bleakly to the President on its ten-day effort to mediate a settlement: "The board cannot point to any single issue of any consequence whatsoever upon which the parties are in agreement." Next morning Assistant Attorney General George Cochran Doub boarded an Air Force plane for Pittsburgh, steel capital, to argue the U.S.'s case for a Taft-Hartley injunction before District Judge Herbert P. Sorg...
...doing, the Supreme Court let stand a six-day delay granted the union by an appeals court in Philadelphia Tuesday when it upheld the back-to-work order issued earlier by a U.S. district judge in Pittsburgh. That delay--intended to give the union time to carry its case to the Supreme Court--is due to expire Monday...
Meanwhile, in Pittsburgh, negotiators in the steel strike can't even agree on the value of a wage package proposal, let alone get together on the amount of new money a contract should provide for the workers...
...them. Each day, the paper devotes several columns to bridge, checkers, baseball, club meetings, roque and shuffleboard. The casualty list from a Vermont train wreck will be carried in full; hockey scores from Canada appear regularly; the opening of a new bridge in Philadelphia may not make Pittsburgh papers, but it is likely to appear in the St. Petersburg Times, whose old subscribers come from all over the U.S. and Canada and demand such coverage...