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...workers, members of 15 non-operating unions (clerks, signalmen, freight handlers, etc.), had asked for a 25?-an-hour boost, retroactive to Dec. 1. The railroads met them half way with 12½, but wanted it retroactive only to March 1. The final agreement, engineered by Presidential Assistant John Steelman: 12½ retroactive...
...John Steelman got labor and management to agree on a compromise...
Roads Seized. At the urging of Dr. John Steelman, Harry Truman's labor adviser, management made another offer. To the fact-finders' offer, they added a 5?-an-hour boost for all hands and an escalator clause guaranteeing a 1? wage boost with every one-point rise in the cost of living. Still Kennedy and Hughes said no. To show they meant business, they ordered a token strike in three terminals and two feeder railroads. Last week, apparently in a more amenable mood, they promised Steelman that they would not extend the token strikes. But 45 minutes later...
David Stowe, 39, is a Steelman protégé, born in Connecticut, a former schoolteacher and the son of a schoolteacher. He does the President's homework on the specific problems of the National Security Resources Board, planning the economic moves to be made in event...
Scurrying between the White House and the old State Building, all of these advisers live carefully compartmented lives. They see little of each other socially. They are divided roughly in their thinking between the Clifford philosophy of frontal attack and the Steelman philosophy that the better and safer attack is an oblique one. But the difference is principally in method, not in ideology. It is not enough to interrupt the almost noiseless ticking of the Little Cabinet's well-oiled clockwork...