Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before making its evenhanded report, the board had taken a sweeping view of the whole U.S. economy. It came down from the mount with a warning to both management and labor. It warned industry that it had no right to use up and then discard the human components of its structure. It warned the nation's steelmakers that excessive profits from production should be equitably shared through lower prices. At the same time, it sounded an implicit warning to labor that benefits cannot be won at the expense of industry's good health. In other words, the board...
...that they saw them, they would also have to make up their minds which way to jump. But the nation, only last week facing a strangling strike of 500,000 men in steel, momentarily could breathe a little more easily. It had before it, in the board's report, a comprehensive formula for peace...
...days the three men on the fact-finding board had listened as 60 stubborn steelmakers and six stubborn labor leaders made their largely contradictory points. The board wrote its report. Last week, in a body, it went to the White House...
...Weeds. Their job had not been easy. In their report, they assailed both labor and management for playing fast & loose with statistics. In contrast to the uncritical respect which the Administration had shown in the past for labor's philosophy, Daugherty, Rosenman and Cole time & again chided labor economists for the lack of reliability in their "facts;" they also chided steelmakers for the unreliability of theirs. The truth, the board had decided unanimously in the end, lay somewhere in between...
Foot in the Door. The President, a little awed by the length (80 pages) and the complexity of the report, accepted it without comment, hurriedly wired the disputants a plea for an eleven-day postponement of the strike deadline (Sept. 14) until everyone could give the findings "the greatest weight and most earnest consideration." One by one steelmakers began agreeing to the truce. The auto workers' Walter Reuther flew to Pittsburgh to sit at the elbow of Phil Murray as the elderly labor chief sat down for a careful study of the report...