Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Strike for Sanity. Playing the role of a quiet subversive among the hortatory voices of the Times editorial page, Baker mocks "overstates," the "crisis-glut" and determined problem solvers. "A solved problem creates two new problems," he writes, "and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to." A sober Washington reporter himself until a sense of futility overcame him, Virginia-born Baker became the Times's first humor columnist six years ago. He uses humor, he says, "to strike a blow for sanity...
...Commerce's many vacancies in top jobs. His reward was not only appointment last May as full-fledged Secretary-youngest in the department's history-but also a rising role in such Administration efforts as attracting business interest in slum problems, trying to end the long copper strike (which has caused an increase in imports of the metal), patching up L.B.J.'s tattered ties with big business...
...best to reimburse a struck rival for up to 40% of its lost production. Were Chrysler to be struck, for example, G.M. and Ford would go into Saturday overtime production to build 12,000 cars (or 40% of Chrysler's weekly production). After the first week of the strike, they would then pay Chrysler $500 per Saturday-overtime car, or $6,000,000 each week. Had the pact been implemented, Ford, which was the only company to be struck during the 1967 negotiations, could have picked up $96 million during the eight weeks in which its production lines were...
...most of the nation's leading tiremakers, 1967 was a wobbly year. Lagging auto sales caused Detroit to cut back on tire orders; a United Rubber Workers' strike shut down several companies for more than two months. The major exception was Akron's Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., which settled its strike in two weeks-and next month will announce record 1967 sales of about $2.6 billion (up from $2.5 billion in 1966) and profits of $128 million (up by nearly $10 million). This enabled Goodyear to further entrench itself in its 51-year-old position...
Died. Roy Reuther, 58, labor organizer and second of the U.A.W.'s three Reuther brothers; of a heart attack; in Detroit. With Walter and Victor, Roy was a driving force in the early days of the U.A.W., personally plotted and led the first successful strike against General Motors in Flint, Mich., in 1937 -a landmark victory that gave the infant U.A.W. the impetus that eventually made it the second largest union...