Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discuss recent primary results--in terms of a voter rebellion against the Democratic New Deal and Casaristic elements in the groundswell for Eisenhower. Other editorials criticize President Truman for allowing his loyalty to General Marshall to overide professions of sympathy with Chiang Kai-shek, and complain that the current Wage Stabilization program has union leanings...
...Reversal. Specifically, the blowup was over the steel case, but that was just the ingot that broke Wilson's back. After the Wage Stabilization Board approved a bright package of benefits and increases amounting to 26.1? an hour for the steelworkers (TIME, March 31), Wilson hustled down to Key West to talk to the President. "I advised you it was my best judgment that if steelworkers received the whole package . . . inevitably other unions would demand and probably have to be given like consideration," wrote Wilson in his letter of resignation, "and that I did not believe the resultant inflationary...
...when the President came back to Washington, wrote Wilson, "you changed the plan we agreed upon," approving the WSB wage package but frowning on the idea of a compensating price increase for industry. Said Wilson: "This violates my sense of justice and disregards the principles of equity on which I understood our whole control program was based...
...Wilson, returning from Key West, infuriated Phil Murray by blurting that the proposed WSB package was "a serious threat in our year-old effort to stabilize the economy." Then Wilson telephoned the steelmakers to promise them that the President had agreed to a raise in steel prices if the wage settlement required...
...program. Chief points: recognition of the C.T.C., preservation of union gains, job security for Mujal and other leaders. Saying that he will "respect the C.T.C. as an organization," Batista promised only to leave Mujal on the job "as long as the workers want to keep him." Strikes and new wage claims, he added, would not be tolerated. Even before this-in fact, from the day Batista took over-sugar mill-owners, manufacturers and hotelkeepers reported a sudden end to such nuisances as wildcat strikes and "disrespect...