Word: steels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read your Nov. 9 article on the steel strike with great interest. I have a suggestion to end long, costly strikes for all time. Simply lock the union and management in a room and let them out only when they have come up with an agreement. This method is used to elect a Pope, and has great success...
...think there can be only one solution to the steel strike. Those who should decide the outcome of the strike are the 500,000 striking steelworkers. A secret ballot of all the involved workers as to whether they want to continue or settle the strike might produce the most surprising results...
...case like the steel strike, it is very pleasant to assume a lofty attitude and say a plague on both your houses. Unfortunately, the issues are national in scope and nobody has the right not to take a stand on them. And you cannot be against inflation and featherbedding and then fail to support the companies if their position is based on opposition to these things...
...Anderson stepped up to the Defense Department's No. 2 post. Deputy Defense Secretary. In mid-1955 he left the Administration to take over as president of Ventures, Ltd., a Canadian holding company with worldwide mining interests. When Treasury Secretary George Humphrey decided to go back to the steel business, he persuaded Anderson to return to Washington to succeed him. In mid-July 1957, outgoing Secretary Humphrey took incoming Secretary Anderson to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to see the first dollar bills coming off the presses with Anderson's signature on them. They were also...
...opposed stands, any settlement will involve a substantial retreat by either or both sides--or even government action such as compulsory arbitration or temporary seizure of the railroads. Rail transportation cannot be halted for more than a week without economic consequences far more serious than the repercussions of the steel strike, at least in the opinion of many economists...