Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flights to Berlin. One three-truck U.S. convoy was stopped for eight hours at the West Berlin gateway-but by Soviet, not East German guards; and hundreds of other trucks passed through without difficulty. In Moscow Nikita Khrushchev told graduates of Moscow's Military Academies that the Soviet Union had not meant to imply the use of force at Berlin, but that his government would soon offer the U.S., Britain and France "definite, concrete proposals regarding the status of Berlin...
...import the rest. Frondizi saw only one solution. Risking the wrath of nationalistic Peronistas (and nationalists in his own Radical Party), he negotiated $1 billion worth of development contracts with foreign oil companies, mostly from the U.S. (TIME, Aug. 4). Signed up were Pan American International Oil Co., Union Oil Co., Lane-Wells Co. and Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades...
...oilmen from Loeb. Rhoades arrived at La Ventana oilfield in Mendoza province, did the meaning of Frondizi's deals sink home. A group of Peronista oilworkers in Mendoza gave Frondizi 48 hours to cancel the oil contracts. When Frondizi ignored their ultimatum, they struck. The national oilworkers' union then called for a nationwide walkout, and other Communist-and-Peronista-dominat-ed unions threatened a general strike...
Despite his protestations of innocence, a gang of Frondizi supporters invaded Gomez' office next day. wrecked furniture, destroyed papers and ordered Gomez to resign. At week's end he put his resignation in Frondizi's hands, and the national oil union decided to postpone its strike threat. Frondizi was still on top. He had lost his dubious Peronista support, and the Mendoza oilworkers were still on strike, but he had gained the prestige of demonstrated firmness...
...recent elections, right-to-work laws went down to defeat in five of the six states where they were proposed. But they are far from a dead issue. Already, unionists are getting set for a drive in Congress to outlaw state laws that forbid the union shop. The arguments over such laws have ranged all the way from the position of Labor Secretary James Mitchell that "they do more harm than good" to the stand of General Electric Chairman Ralph Cordiner, who says his company takes right-to-work laws into consideration as a plus factor when locating new plants...