Word: strike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After that stern admonition, Ike affirmed his faith in free collective bargaining by asking labor and management to negotiate "around-the-clock" to avert a new steel crisis when the strike-halting Taft-Hartley injunction expires Jan. 26. "What great news it would be if, during the course of this journey, I should receive word of a settlement of this steel controversy that is fair to the workers, fair to management and, above all, fair to the American people," said he. But the steelworkers and steel companies, deeply entrenched and unshakably stubborn after a 116-day siege...
Winter closed the St. Lawrence Seaway this week, and the score was in on its first season. Through October the new waterway moved 17.4 million tons of cargo, well short of the 25 million ton goal. Part of the reason was bad luck; the U.S. steel strike had cut off iron-ore shipments from Labrador and traffic of other bulk commodities was down...
Business was coming back fast from the steel shortage. As representatives of the steel industry and the steelworkers got ready to meet in Washington with federal mediators, the steelworkers warned the Government to stockpile steel lest there be a shortage for defense purposes if the strike is resumed when the Taft-Hartley injunction period ends Jan. 26. But the Government refused...
...team should do very well in Ivy League competition this year, Coach Edo Marion said last night. Marion is currently using a new training method which he hopes will ease the excessive tension some swordsmen feel during a match, as will as teaching them the "right psychological moment" to strike...
...Enterprise. A large part of the credit for the growth goes to Prime Minister Menzies' government, which had the great good sense to help private enterprise uncover the riches of the country. A basic move by Menzies' Liberal government was to ensure peace with Australia's strike-inclined unions. Under the Labor government that preceded Menzies' Liberals, Australia's key unions, then mainly Red-dominated, all but paralyzed the nation by strikes. The situation became so bad during a Red-organized coal strike that the government ordered army troops to man the mines...