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...Senate side, a Judiciary subcommittee opened hearings on legislation to check the still rising flood of portal-to-portal pay suits (see BUSINESS...
Traditionally bellicose, the policy of the Wigglesworth gate has frustrated Freshmen from the year one. Unable to enter the Yard by the accustomed portal, many now students have wandered off into the darkness never to return. Although the University authorities have tried to keep this horrible news from the student body, the tale has spread like wildfire. The magnitude of its effect can hardly be underestimated. Erstwhile socialites are reluctant to leave their rooms for fear of perishing in the night, and those hardy spirits venturing forth after dark take precaution to equip themselves with the latest survival gear...
Some major matters he avoided completely. There was no mention of portal-to-portal pay, of income-tax reductions, of such an old troublemaker as FEPC. Foreign policy and foreign trade he dismissed with a lick & a promise-and an aside on "the difficulty of reaching agreement with the Soviet Union on the terms of [peace] settlement." One of his few specific requests was for the continuation of war excise tax rates-which he himself had just lifted by abruptly announcing the termination of hostilities (see below...
Onward rolled the portal-to-portal snowball. By last week labor unions had filed suits for retroactive pay under the portal principle (TIME, Dec. 16 et seq.) to the staggering total of $3 billion...
...stop the snowball, Michigan Republican Clare E. Hoffman rose up in the new Congress and introduced legislation which would: 1) define the work week as consisting only of time actually spent in productive work; and 2) through retroactive provisions, throw all portal suits out of court. Few experts thought it would be that easy, or that the retroactive provisions would be constitutional. But other bills were being readied for the congressional hopper, in a frantic attempt to slam the door on portal pay. One of them would levy a 100% windfall tax on retroactive portal payments...