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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest aftereffect of this month's crippling New York transit strike may be on organized labor itself...
...Rene Cappon was not ready to let the story drop. He suspected that there might be more to tell, and he was a conscientious enough journalist to put a routine note in his "futures file" as a reminder to check up on Negrón early in 1966. The transit strike finally out of the way, an A.P. reporter made a call to Negrón. Cappon quickly learned that he had another big story...
...that the Administration, while merely grumbling about wage increases, coerces observance of the price ceiling. Thus, when Bethlehem Steel last fortnight tried to raise prices on structural steel by $5 a ton, Johnson ordered all federal agencies to refuse to buy Bethlehem structurals. Yet, while New York's transit workers were winning an infinitely more inflationary contract, Johnson said nothing...
Having done nothing to help end the New York City transit strike, President Johnson was on doubtful ground when he denounced the settlement as a violation of the Government's supposedly voluntary wage-price guidelines. Even more questionable was Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz's after-the-settlement attempt to blame beleaguered Republican Mayor John Lindsay for the guideline violation. The N.Y. Times described the remarks of Democrats Johnson and Wirtz as "blatantly political"-which of course they were. Yet even such editorial cavils served only to obscure some more basic questions-relating to the rather remarkable history...
...Either transit fares or real estate taxes seem sure to go up in San Francisco because of the costly settlement that ended New York City's twelve-day transit strike. Transit wages in the Golden Gate city are tied by contract formula to those in New York, highest in the nation. As a result, San Francisco's transit wage bill could rise by $572,000 a year next July 1 and by another $1,600,000 a year in 1967. Meeting that cost would require a 100 rise in realty taxes, from today's rate...