Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steel strike moved well beyond its 100th day, it chugged inevitably toward some kind of settlement on two separate tracks. On one track was the Justice Department's petition for a Taft-Hartley injunction to return the strikers to the mills for 80 days. On the other track was a resumption of bargaining between the steel companies and the United Steelworkers in Pittsburgh, while pressures mounted for settlement. The strongest pressure on the Big Steelmen came from small and medium-sized steel firms impatient for a settlement. This week the West Coast's Edgar F. Kaiser, the most...
...building construction came to a halt. By week's end close to 300,000 workers outside the 500,000 in the steel industry nad been squeezed out of their jobs. Foreign competition was invading long-nurtured U.S. markets. The trade magazine Iron Age predicted that, even with settlement, the U.S. would still be feeling the steel shortages into next summer...
...faced opposition of professional politicians from its very inception in 1945; and while many ascribe this opposition to the difficulty Plan E presents for potential grafters, there seems to be an honest objection that without leadership--or "party responsibility"--the Council has trouble arriving at a clear definition and settlement of its internal conflicts...
...settlement is effective to June...
...other companies said Kaiser's defection would not affect their determination to resist what they called an inflationary settlement...