Word: ups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching, reflecting over his failure to break the deadlock, sadly summed up: "It's a matter of principle with both sides." Undoubtedly it was. But the people of the U.S. would have a hard time understanding just what the principle was.
As Murray saw it, workers should not have to put up a red cent. He argued that anything they were forced to put up for their welfare would represent a deduction from their take-home pay.
At the black-scarred coal strips and tipples of 70 independent coal mines, owners and a scattering of non-union diggers worked warily, with loaded shotguns and rifles close at hand. A convoy of 15 loaded coal trucks was ambushed in hilly Centre County, attacked with rifle fire and stones...
In New York, after 16 weeks of sporadic violence, half of the Bell Aircraft Corps.'s 3,000 workers were still holding out for a 15?-an-hour wage hike, $100-a-month noncontributory pensions and other benefits which the company estimated at an overall 62½?-an-hour...
In Hawaii, the iron-fisted embargo that Harry Bridges' C.I.O. longshoremen had clamped around Honolulu's reef-ringed harbor last May (TIME, July 4) was beginning to rust through in several places. The trickle of cargo that had begun when the territorial government seized the docks seven weeks...