Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George F. Kennan, former Ambassador to the Soviet Union, will spend five weeks at the College this spring as a visiting lecturer in History. He will deliver a dozen lectures on the history of Soviet diplomacy under Stalin...
...offer 1) raised the management proposal on wage increases and fringe benefits slightly (to 30? an hour by the companies' reckoning, spread over three years); 2) increased cost-of-living increases to a maximum of 8? v. 3? previously offered, and 3) proposed a two-man union and management committee to try to solve work-rule problems. If no agreement is reached by June 30, the questions will be submitted to arbitration...
Steelworkers' President David McDonald dismissed the offer as "the same old package," insisted that by the union's figuring the actual cash value of the offer was still no more than 24 ?. As for the softer approach to work-rule reform, McDonald said it only made it clearer that the companies were out to take away "our hard-fought gains...
...Warning. Formal mediation meetings will be resumed after Thanksgiving, but unionists feel that the companies' offer is not likely to be materially raised. If not accepted by the union leadership, the Taft-Hartley law requires submitting management's final offer to a secret-ballot membership vote between Jan. 5 and Jan. 26. After that, the union leadership could still order the men out on strike again, whether the vote was favorable...
Peter Piperisms. The national fear of secret diplomacy has become "suspicion of any diplomacy." This, in turn, lies at the core of what Hughes regards as the greatest U.S. diplomatic shortcoming of the past decade, the "evading" of direct negotiations with the Soviet Union. Author Hughes seems to find Soviet diplomatic maneuvers venturesome, flexible and imaginative, however brutal, and American diplomacy uninventive. bumbling and myopic, however decent. He pays ungrudging respect to the Marshall Plan and U.S. intervention in Korea and Lebanon, but he dismisses the concepts of "liberation." "containment" and "massive retaliation" as semantic pacifiers...