Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There had been a whole series of ac tions to stave off a strike. When the last postponement ended June 19, the unions pledged not to strike. But a Johnson-proposed bill, imposing a binding settlement if no voluntary accord was reached, got hung up for a month in a Senate-House conference committee. With the matter still unresolved, the Machinists finally walked...
Specifically, the bill created a five-man panel to mediate the dispute and, if no agreement emerged in 90 days, to impose a settlement that would be binding until Jan. 1, 1969. In naming the panel, the President surprised everybody by including A.F.L.-C.l.O. President George Meany. It came as a still greater surprise when Johnson named as chairman Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse. For one thing, he is one of L. B. J.'s peskiest Viet Nam war critics. Moreover, although Morse is an old hand at labor mediation, he won the implacable enmity...
...labor, the formula for an imposed settlement sounded suspiciously like compulsory arbitration, though the Administration called it "mediation to finality." Whatever its name, the plan was another in a line of stopgap solutions. As such, it pointed up the need for Johnson to make good on his 18-month-old promise to propose permanent legislation against crippling strikes. For, notwithstanding congressional-and presidential-squeamishness on the subject, the fact is that in some strikes, as the President himself said last week, "the public interest must take precedence over private interests...
...moved them into high-rise apartments. Here was a leader who asserted that the Koran could be made compatible with "Arab socialism," who emancipated women, started birth control, planned the Aswan Dam, produced nuclear energy, renounced Egypt's claim to the Sudan, and even sought a Palestine settlement. Yet even Nasser could not resist the temptation of turning from the slow, difficult tasks of true growth toward the easier course-feeding his people's hunger with visions of revenge on Israel. Russia chose to arm the fantasy. In the end, Nasser bluffed and blustered himself into...
When the carrier is at fault-as when a clerk slaps a Carson City ticket on a bag headed for Chicago-the errant luggage is pursued relentlessly. When it can finally be established that a piece is lost, financial settlement is made. Naturally, people try to pull a fast one once in a while. A man arrives at the airport, does not feel like waiting around for a few minutes to claim his luggage, and then complains to the airline from his hotel. Right or wrong, he gets his bag custom-delivered to his room...