Word: strike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NOTHING TO DO WITH HAMLET. Instead it is the basic issue of principle which has brought about the longest national steel strike in U.S. history and which last week caused the President of the U.S. to do some head-bumping. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...days later, the President of the U.S. all but fulfilled the steelworker's wish by summoning the top men on both sides of the steel strike to the White House for head-banging sessions. "I am getting sick and tired of the apparent impasse," Ike told his press conference, and "so are the American people...
...Street." Some kind of presidential intervention in the strike was plainly necessary. It had dragged on into the longest nationwide steel strike in U.S. history. The huge steel inventories piled up in warehouses when the strike began back in mid-July had dwindled so drastically that manufacturers were starting to schedule layoffs for lack of steel. A dozen appliance manufacturers warned that they would have to shut down completely by mid-October unless the strike ended...
...sense a stand on principle, but in another sense it was a lucky break for the steelworkers' Dave McDonald. After seeing most of their postwar wage gains canceled out by price upcreep, rank -and-file steelworkers were wary of following McDonald into a strike for higher wages. But when industry negotiators started talking about changing work rules, steelworkers began heeding his warnings that the bosses wanted to bring back the bad old days of "industrial dictatorship" and "assembly-line slaves...
With the rank and file backing him up, and with other unions contributing as rarely before to his strike kitty, McDonald could refuse even to discuss revision of 2-B at the bargaining table. Result: total deadlock. Last fortnight, denouncing the negotiations as a "farcical filibuster," McDonald walked...