Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outcome of the vote was crucial for the nation and for the President, who had committed his prestige by trying to force a settlement. Officially, White House policy last week was one of hands off. "We will not be encouraging ratification or campaigning for it," declared Labor Secretary Ray Marshall.* "The choice is theirs." Nevertheless, the White House increased the pressure for an agreement by preparing to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act. In the past the miners defied Taft-Hartley, and their acquiescence now is uncertain. But the President selected a board of inquiry to determine if a national emergency...
...rank and file. In exchange for a 37% pay increase over a three-year period, the owners insisted on making the miners pay for part of their medical benefits and fining them for wildcat strikes. For reasons that are still obscure, U.M.W. President Arnold Miller went along with a settlement that he must have known would be as acceptable as black lung to his membership. When it was overwhelmingly rejected by the bargaining council, which consists of the union's 39 district leaders, he had to go back under a barrage of criticism for another round of negotiations...
...U.M.W. leadership spent $40,000 to whip up support for ratification of the second pact. Country Singer Johnny Paycheck, a favorite of the miners, was recruited to support the settlement in one-minute radio spots. Instead of belting out his top song, Take This Job and Shove It, he pushed the new contract by singing a few bars of Spread the Good News Around. Miller traveled through Appalachia, appealing to the locals and making a pitch on television. District presidents chorused their own praise of the pact over nine TV and 50 radio stations in all the regions where U.M.W...
...internal"settlement seems more settled Beneath a watercolor print of Rhodesia's founder, Cecil Rhodes, that had been borrowed for the occasion, Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and three moderate black leaders last week signed a document that was billed as the first formal step toward black majority rule for their country. Three months after he first sat down to negotiate with Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole and Chief Jeremiah Chirau, Smith had apparently achieved the "internal" settlement he had been seeking...
...hold elections before the end of the year. Toughest of all, it is supposed to arrange a cease-fire with the Patriotic Front, the guerrilla organization that has waged war against the Smith regime for five years. Muzorewa and Sithole argue that most of the guerrillas would back the settlement, but that is not the message that the guerrillas themselves are sending. Since the Salisbury talks began in December, Patriotic Front Leaders Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo have intensified the fighting. Indeed, the day after the agreement was signed, the capital was rocked by several bomb blasts that were almost...