Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Weariness of price upcreep made many a union member skeptical about the value of wage boosts won by unions. Admitted a United Auto Workers official in Detroit, on the eve of the threatened steel strike (see BUSINESS) : "My guess is that the steel strike will get as little actual support, from the public and from labor in general, as any strike ever got. The average working stiff is becoming much more realistic about these things...
...Steel Strike: He planned no new move to avert a strike "other than to continue to urge both sides to continue negotiations." Both sides should "keep before their eyes what the United States needs...
...plan assumes that the U.S. will suffer the first blow in any major nuclear war. It counts on the expectation that the nation will not only survive the first onslaught but will have the military strength to launch a massive counter-strike and the morale to get the nation back on its feet. Yet, despite the urgent recommendations of the Gaither report, the Rockefeller defense report (TIME, Jan. 13, 1958) and most civil-defense experts, not a single city or state in the nation has a realistic nuclear-bomb shelter system-a system that on a national scale could save...
...industry was obviously in a strong position to weather a short strike. Realizing this, Big Labor was ready to trim its package-wage demands from a reported 15? to 20? an hour to about a dime. But there was little apparent progress in negotiations last week. Company bargainers held fast to their no-raise stand...
...working conditions showed that 40% regularly worked 72 hours a week or longer. Their median income was less than $12.50 a week. By contrast, the most recent figures on 1959 steelworkers' pay show average weekly income (for 40.7 hours) of $125.36, with the union (see above) threatening to strike for more...