Word: shutdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another Season. But as the public uproar built up, Chairman Sloan did make himself a little more accessible. In calling off the season the week before, Sloan had cut off any further talk with the unions that he blamed for the shutdown (TIME, Aug. 16). Last week, he and six other board members huddled all one afternoon with the union representatives in a Grand Tier-floor room at the Met. When the meeting broke up, one union leader told reporters: "After all, we all left the meeting together, and nobody had any black eyes...
Without opera, management could easily rent the hall to ballets, concerts and rallies every night of the season. Thus only the Met's employees-and the operagoing public-really stood to lose by the shutdown. The unions were sure the Met was out to get them. Obviously stunned by the shutdown, they met together this week to see whether, by modifying their demands, they could change the board's mind. If they did, the Met might yet open this fall, possibly several weeks late. But the board expressed no such hope: it promised only to "consider ways & means...
...Labor government began last week to meet the challenge, ordered soldiers & sailors to assist some 5,000 non-strikers to unload the ships. But the strikers were not giving up just yet. The shutdown spread to Liverpool and Birkenhead. This week, at the request of Attlee's government, King George VI declared a state of national emergency...
...have been a couple of epidemics of dysentery. People have clogged the cancer clinic with strange swellings. Hospital corridors are full of trichinosis patients lying bloated and helpless. Some of the smaller plants have shut down. And the big ones have slowed to a production pace worse than a shutdown. This, because of a new kind of common cold which leaves its victims weak and shaky for a month-when it doesn't flash into fatal pneumonia...
Just as real and grim as the shutdown was the dispute. John Lewis insisted that every miner over 60 with 20 years of service should be paid a pension of $100 a month. The operators' Ezra Van Horn insisted that to finance such a plan the present 10?-a-ton royalty on mined coal would have to be raised to 40?. The operators were not going to cough...