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...scheduled start of a national railway strike was a few hours away...
...Mistake." As speedily signed by President Kennedy, the bill prohibited a strike for six months, set up an arbitration board to consist of two management members, two labor members and three public representatives. The board was given 90 days to dictate a settlement on two key issues between railway management and labor: the size of work crews, and the continued employment of some 32,000 unneeded firemen on diesel trains. The board's decisions, binding on both labor and management, would take effect in two more months...
That left the responsibility for preventing a strike right in the lap of Congress, where President Kennedy had tossed it six weeks ago. Kennedy had urged that Congress empower the Interstate Commerce Commission to arbitrate the railway dispute. But the unions, insisting that the ICC is dominated by prejudiced members, lobbied frantically against the President's proposal. The result was that the Senate Commerce Committee dumped the Kennedy plan, substituted its own version...
Something seemed to be different. Last year, in the name of protecting the nation's economic interests, President Kennedy leaped headlong into a success ful effort to keep Big Steel from raising its prices. But in 1963, with Big Labor threatening a devastating national railway strike for this week, Kennedy clearly wants no part of the dispute...
...their inventories. Most sensational was the confession of N. Medintziv, supervisor of Sporting Equipment Factory No. 2, that he had turned his back, for thousands of rubles a month in payoffs, while the chief of his cutting-floor section routed consignments of leather to distant Georgia (via the state railway). There it was secretly fashioned into fancy high-heeled shoes, which were smuggled back to Moscow -and snapped up by the Soviet capital's increasingly style-conscious women...