Word: strike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along with the problem of too little money, strikers carry the burden of too much time. During the first few weeks of the strike, many of them found it pleasant to have leisure for fishing and do-it-yourself projects. But then boredom set in. "I wish it was over," sighs Steel Mill Machinist Louis Webb, saturated with TV. "I like to work." Even worse than boredom for some strikers is a growing feeling of helplessness as the strike drags on and savings dwindle. "Sometimes when I go to bed," says Frank Sekula, "I think: Here I am a head...
Even with their problems of money and morale, Youngstown's steelworkers and their families are neither angry nor restive-not yet, anyway. "We've had a steel strike in the Mahoning Valley almost every two years since the war," said Union National Bank President Asael Adams Jr. "There's very little clamor or bitterness. People are quiet and peaceful. Maybe they're getting used to steel strikes." Added Steelworker Matt Inchak as the strike stretched into its twelfth week: "I'll stay out twelve more weeks if we have to. I've been...
From Searsport, Me. to Corpus Christi, Texas, the great ports of the eastern and southern U.S. were as idle as millponds last week, immobilized by a sudden wildcat strike by the crime-ridden International Longshoremen's Association. Pickets in New York took a "coffee break" to let Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, Vatican diplomat, make a hasty departure from the Vulcania without suffering the embarrassment of crossing their line. A troupe of Yemenite dancers walked ashore with their luggage on their heads, and pursers and stewards from the U.S.S. Constitution helped 983 home-coming travelers tote their baggage ashore. Perishable goods...
...strike began after I.L.A. officials in New York and other Northeastern ports had signed a truce agreement with the New York Shipping Association to extend the current labor contract until Oct. 15, while negotiations for a new contract continued. Longshoremen, with a base pay of $2.80 an hour, were demanding 50? more. Management was offering them 30?, but the real issue was not wages. It was what the I.L.A. uses as a cussword: "automation." The shippers wanted to replace antiquated loading and unloading equipment with new devices-belt conveyors for the obsolescent cargo slings of clipper-ship days; electronic gantry...
After the extension agreement had been signed in New York, Southern dock hands refused to go along because, they said, employers in South Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports had refused to make any future pay increases retroactive, as the Yankee shippers had agreed to do. From the Gulf, the strike spread swiftly north, and from the way the opposing sides talked, there seemed slight chance of quick settlement...