Word: settlement
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Emphasizing the urgency of the situation, President Carter brought both sides to the White House last week and pressed for a quick settlement-a rare and potentially risky presidential intervention. At week's end, bargaining talks were jolted by union rejection of the owners' proffered terms, and Labor Secretary Ray Marshall disclosed that a government takeover of the mines was among the worst-case scenarios being studied by the Administration. Meanwhile, Governors from the twelve Eastern-Central states most deeply hurt by the walkout arrived in Washington to coordinate their plans with the President and his energy advisers...
Until there is a settlement, not much can be done to relieve the hardship. There is no easy way of distributing power from the states that have it in sufficient quantity to those that do not. The U.S. lacks a heavy-volume interconnection of grids to link utilities across the nation. Coal can be shipped by rail or truck, but not in adequate amounts...
...last count there were about 300 Jewish organizations in America-and almost as many points of view, or at least shadings, among American Jews as to what, precisely, Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin should be doing to bring about a Middle East settlement. Consensus on anything is hard to come by, except for the obvious fundamental that Israel has the right to exist as an independent Jewish state in peace with its Arab neighbors. On that, virtually all Jews feel strongly and emotionally...
What provoked the rebellion against the settlement, which Miller had described as "by far the best agreement negotiated in any major industry in the past two years"? For most dissidents, money was not the rub: the agreement offers miners pay raises, over three years, that would lift their average hourly wage from $7.80 to $10.15. In all, wages and fringes would increase nearly 37%. But the contract also authorizes stiff penalties for absenteeism and, more important, seeks to do away with wildcat strikes. It allows mineowners to discipline wildcatters by requiring such strikers...
Precisely such wildcat strikes have long hobbled the coal industry and prevented it from attaining higher productivity. Indeed, the White House, looking forward to new heights of output from the miners, said nothing about the settlement's obvious inflationary effects...