Word: ups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These were obvious moves and they were all based on the assumption that an atomic attack on the U.S. would come from the air. But military men would also have to face up to another possibility: a sneak attack could come even more devastatingly by sea. Defensive plans would have...
All of the palaver was beginning to make some of the steelworkers a little restive. At one U.S. steel subsidiary and two small independent plants, 5,300 workers walked out on wildcat strikes. Explained one local unionist: "We've built the boys up and they're ready to...
Washington strategists were optimistic. "We had to get them out of Washington," explained a Labor Department conciliator. "Murray was too far out on the limb to crawl back and the steel companies were fast getting into the same position on the opposite limb. Local bargaining may turn up something that...
Once the bargaining got underway, something turned up almost at once. Standard Steel Works, a subsidiary of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, promptly agreed to the full 10?-an-hour pension and welfare package urged by the President as a sound basis for settling the contract dispute in the steel industry...
To back up the threat, the well-controlled convention authorized the U.E. bosses to withhold membership payments from C.I.O. headquarters if Murray rejected the obviously unacceptable demands. As an added fillip, it approved a resolution indirectly accusing Murray's steelworkers of selling out labor by accepting the recommendations of...