Word: stating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LAND. "A labor dispute occurs at a small plant. The union or the employer goes to the Federal Labor Board. The board says the case is too small for federal action [and] state officials can't do anything because the states have no authority. That leaves the worker and his employer in this no man's land ... So all too often the dispute is settled-if we can use such a word-by force ... I want to give the states authority ... I want the no man's land abolished...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. was all out for the mildest-yet labor bill, filed by California Democrat John F. Shelley (former president of the California State Federation of Labor). The Shelley bill skips over picketing and boycott abuses, requires financial accounting from unions, and also from management "of expenditures for union-busting activities and hiring of labor spies," as George Meany...
...respect of most fellow Governors and rang up a record for solid performance by pushing his politically unpopular proposal (see Civil Defense) for state-supervised construction of fallout bomb shelters...
...proposal was brought to San Juan by New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who last month defied the advice of politicos and sponsored a compulsory shelter plan for all homes in New York State (TIME, July 20). In working sessions Rockefeller, backed by Civil Defense Mobilizer Leo Hoegh, got his fellow Governors to formally 1) endorse a "vigorous and continuing campaign of education" on fallout hazards and the need for privately built shelters, 2) promise to survey shelter facilities in their own state buildings and set up alternate capitols in protected spots. (Twelve states already have them.) They also...
...activities in the U.S., there would be discussion with Eisenhower but not negotiation, and a main topic would be Germany-but not Germany's reunification: "There are no hopes of unifying East and West Germany in the near future, consequently one must proceed from the real state of affairs, from the fact that there are two German states." Answering another question, he magnanimously assured everyone that Russia will attempt no change in Berlin's status so long as talks continue...