Word: strife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fiat. As the returns came in, disappointed Harry Truman decided that the Labor-Management Conference was his last bulwark against industrial strife. He summoned the delegates to the White House; all week long they trooped in to listen to a dead-serious plea for help...
...President's sentiments sounded somewhat quaint and academic against the background of industrial strife and power politicking, perhaps this was not so much to the discredit of Harry Truman as it was indicative of the feckless fatalism of the public...
Labor got a sharp slap across the face last week. Andrew Jackson Higgins, New Orleans' big, bluff shipbuilder, announced that he would close down his three plants, sell them to the highest bidder, and farm out his fat $40,000,000 peacetime contracts to other manufacturers. Reason: labor strife that never seemed...
Labor's attitude seemed to be: "The public be damned; let's get ours." Management, long since disarmed in labor strife, stood by, waiting for Government to do something. Government was almost as helpless; it had no firm policy and no means of stopping strikes, except plant seizures; it would lose even that inconclusive weapon six months after the official end of World War II was proclaimed...
...homily hit home; such thoughts were already in the minds of most of the U.S. people. By this week the average, long-suffering U.S. citizen had begun to grow impatient with labor-management strife and the threat of more. He had good cause: he was caught in the middle and he was getting hurt...