Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Round No. 3 had begun. U.S. labor was again asking U.S. industry for higher wages. Boosts ranging from 8? to 12½? an hour had already been won by three middle-sized C.I.O. unions-the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, the Textile Workers and Harry Bridges' longshoremen. These gains came peaceably...
...last week Round No. 3 produced its first crisis. It arose out of a demand by three A.F.L. unions, representing some 50,000 Western Union employees, for a 15?-an-hour hike. Western Union offered to give from a penny to a nickel more per hour to 9,029 workers, nothing to the rest. The unions branded the offer "insulting," called a strike for this week...
...spring, Round No. 3 would be going full blast. The C.I.O.'s two giants, the steelworkers and the autoworkers, would both go to bat on new contracts in April. The steelworkers' Phil Murray planned to drive hard for an annual wage. The autoworkers' Walter Reuther wanted a price roll-back,* but did not expect to get it. In Washington last week, Reuther said: "What we're after is not dollars but purchasing power. If industry and Congress keep on failing to reduce prices, we will fight on the only front open to us-wages...
...Correctly described by Franklin P. Adams as "a 15-round bout at fisticuffs between Mr. Barrow and Mr. Cream...
...everyday life that are passed over by the searchlights of the news. The runny-nosed children and distracted parents of "Born Thirty Years Too Soon," "The Worry Wart" and "Why Mothers Get Gray" are gently comic memories of many an American childhood. "Bull of the Woods" goes all round a machine shop to show that there, too, human nature runs triumphantly rampant. And Williams' slackjawed, dust-caked cowhands, Curly, Stiffy, Wes and Soda of Out Our Way, have some of his friend Will Rogers' half-sad drollery. They are the working cowhands that Williams knew as a rancher...