Word: union
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wide complaints--such as the railroads have against firemen in deisel engines--but specific instances that can be settled by arbitration. As for the general management desire to regain more control over work rules, most unionists feel that this is a reaction to the days of finks and company unions. Considering the progress made under present regulations, the company demand on work rules seems designed more to impede union activities than to redress grievances...
...from each side or the advertisements with their specious economics. The antagonists (as has become the case with many of the world's diplomatic contenders) seem more interested in public relations than specific progress. The issues in the strike have involved wage increases and work rules; the second crystallized union support behind its leadership when economic demands alone seemed insufficient to hold a firm front...
...Union wage demands seemed particularly unpropitious last spring, since high employment had only recently been regained after the recession and since the steel companies had accumulated an inventory sufficient to meet orders for a couple of months. The steel firms have claimed that wage increases would force them to raise prices and have sanctimoniously used anti-inflation sentiment as an argument against such wage increases. A lowering of steel prices, before the strike rather than a threat to raise them afterwards would have proved their sincerity much more effectively and probably would have forced the Union to forego any demands...
...railroadman's railroadman, big (6 ft., 200 lbs.), affable Allen Greenough won a reputation at the Pennsy for his forcefulness and ability to remain calm in every circumstance. Born in San Francisco, he went to Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. before joining Pennsy as an engineering trainee in 1928, highballed up the corporate track, was boosted to vice president in 1955. Along the route, he distinguished himself by making fast decisions, stopping the buck at his door. Married and father of two sons, he is used to putting in a ten-hour day, gathering his own facts by pounding...
Newsstands all over Boston were mobbed yesterday by people trying to buy out-of-town newspapers as the local branch of the International Typographical Union continued its strike...