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...turned the $2 rise down flat, but offered other concessions: 1) $50 vacation pay instead of $20; 2) an estimated saving of 15 cents a day by making the operators pay for tools; 3) an offer to okay a "reasonable" deal to be worked out by collective bargaining on portal-to-portal...
...hold the line" (as requested by the President) on wages and prices would result in a 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...
...guidance, Lewis told them he was in a dilemma. His men were now underground 53 hours, got paid for only the 42 they spent at the coal facing. But recently a New Orleans court, in a case involving iron miners, had ruled that workers must be paid on a "portal-to-portal" basis...
Churchill's entourage was equally impressive: Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, Chief of Britain's Naval Staff; General Sir Alan Francis Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff; Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Chief of Air Staff; Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Chief of the Commandos; Field Marshal Sir John Dill; Lieut. General Sir Harold Alexander, Commander in Chief of the Middle East; Major General Sir Bernard Montgomery, Commander of the Eighth Army (see p. 26); Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder...
...Chief Marshal Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, head of the R.A.F.—Knight Grand Cross of the Bath...