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Unnoticed in the otherwise overlooked game was the performance of Aiken in the cage. The senior goalie, playing the third consolation game of his career, responded admirably, stopping 45 shots. Much of the rubber that Aiken saw came on breakaways, the result of easy-going play by both forwards and defensemen...
...could speed up inflation and strikes that could disrupt the accelerating recovery, or both. Nearly 4.5 million workers are covered by major contracts that expire or come up for reopening in 1976; that is twice as many as last year. The most important contracts cover five vital industries: trucking, rubber, construction, electrical equipment and autos. They are being renegotiated after two years in which the average hourly earnings of workers in U.S. private industry have risen less than the prices of the goods that the workers buy, so that union leaders are under pressure to push for huge "catchup" increases...
...will have some strikes in certain industries," says W.J. Usery Jr., the new Secretary of Labor. "But we're finding more and more that people are willing to sit down and talk through their problems." Indeed, labor-management experts generally expect a major strike only in the rubber industry. And most economists reckon that wage and benefit increases negotiated in 1976 should average a fairly reasonable 8% to 11% in the first year of the contract. Since output per man-hour is rising as production picks up, the Council of Economic Advisers regards that prospect as no threat...
...RUBBER. The contracts between the Big Four-Goodyear, Goodrich, Firestone and Uniroyal-and 69,000 members of the United Rubber Workers expire on April 20. Negotiations begin next week, and all signs point to a strike. The last U.R.W. contract included no COLA at all, and as a result the average hourly wage for rubber workers has fallen $1.35 behind that of automobile workers (who have been getting a cost of living increase). The union is demanding parity with auto workers' wages in addition to a "meaningful" further wage increase, a COLA clause and improvements in pension and insurance...
Trailing the visually dramatic T shirts by a nose are the Smellies shirts -scented with everything from pizza to burnt rubber. Microscopic capsules containing the odoriferous oils are embedded in the fabric; by scratching the shirt, the wearer breaks the capsules and releases the fragrance. In the past 18 months, the Miami-based company run by the King of the Smellies, James Gall, 29, has sold or supplied the fragrance for a whopping 4 million shirts reeking with more than a hundred smells. Researchers at his company, Smell It Like It Is, Inc., have had the Gall to perfect such...