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Naturalist Leonard Dubkin, who once wrote a nature column for the Chicago Tribune, is probably the only man who ever lost his heart to an albino bat. This esoteric affair, which took place in Chicago, is described in Dubkin's new book, The White Lady (Putnam...
...GOSHAWK (215 pp.)-T. H. White -Putnam...
...decision brought only a postponement of the deadlock over steel, not a solution. The Steelworkers' demands for increased wages and benefits (variously estimated at from 30? to 50? an hour) will go next week before the Wage Stabilization Board. There it will be up to Economic Stabilizer Roger Putnam to find the final answer to a three-horned poser: 1) Phil Murray's determination to get more of an increase than present wage stabilization policies allow; 2) Big Steel's determination to yield nothing to labor without a steel price increase; and 3) the obvious fact that...
Murray's threat came soon after Washington had trumpeted its intention to stand fast. New Economic Stabilizer Roger L. Putnam told the Steelworkers last week that the Wage Stabilization Board's present formula would not be altered to suit their convenience; under this formula the workers might get a 5?-to 13?-an-hour increase (over their present average rate of $1.79 an hour). More emphatically, Putnam told U.S. Steel's President Ben Fairless that ceiling prices on steel would not be raised to offset the cost of wage increases. Said he: "You are bargaining with your...
...Putnam's ukases did not make a strike inevitable, despite Murray's threat. The union's wage demands, made public this week, would boost average earnings by 19? to 20? an hour; if these are trimmed to accord with the WSB formula, the stabilizers might give the nod to Murray's demands for fringe benefits (longer vacations, higher shift premiums) without undignified retreat. Murray is also asking that the steel companies guarantee to each employee with three years' service annual earnings equal to 32 hours a week for 52 weeks...