Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Director Allan McNab, with a powerful assist from strong-minded Katherine Kuh, curator of paintings and sculpture. McNab will stay on as director of administration (staff: 405), thus freeing Maxon for matters of art. A bachelor, Maxon was born in Salt Lake City, trained at Manhattan's Cooper Union Art School and the University of Michigan, took his doctorate at Harvard...
...they got ready to bargain on a new contract, steelmakers and union seemed well aware last week that there will be a third man at the table: the public. Both sides were firing off statements designed to win friends and influence people. United Steelworkers President David McDonald, who had rejected the steelmakers' request that he freeze wages, demanded that the steelmen freeze prices for the life of the new contract, and still give 500,000 steelworkers higher wages and benefits. This would be "justified," McDonald argued, by the industry's heavy profits (see below) and the rising productivity...
...freeze prices, said the firms; nor had they any intention of granting wage boosts, "the primary cause" of inflation. But not all steelmen were so sure that the industry could not freeze prices. Chairman Joseph Block of Inland Steel, one of the twelve companies negotiating, said that if the union held the line on wages, "that would enable us to hold the line on steel prices...
...been told privately just what he can get at the bargaining table: a package wage hike in the area of 8?-10? an hour. Some steel officials, though they insist publicly they would have to pass any wage boosts along in prices, privately admit that they could give the union a modest package without a price hike...
...Mistress (Japanese). A poignant Eastern view of a fallen woman, who rises by union with nature rather than by struggle against...