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Three Harvard labor relations experts agreed that the recent walkout of labor leaders from the Pay Board will have little immediate effect on economic policy, but may create greater rifts between labor, management and government...
...problem was inevitable. Sooner or later it would bust up anyway," Edward R. Livernash, Weatherhead Professor of Business Administration, said yesterday. Livernash added that the walkout "may give the Board a little longer life," and that "from a policy point of view, there will be no effects...
...Warehousemen's Union out even longer had the 18-week dispute not brought the Nixon Administration and Congress to the brink of tough antistrike legislation. Last fall Nixon invoked the Taft-Hartley Act's 80-day cooling-off period to suspend the West Coast dock walkout. When it expired on Christmas Day and the strike resumed last month, the President revived a proposal sent to Congress last year and menacingly renamed it "The Crippling Strikes Prevention Act." A key provision would have enabled the President to name a panel of arbitrators that could impose the last "reasonable" offer...
Some A.A.A.S. leaders sympathized so strongly with the dissenters that they went out of their way to praise the petulant protests. Environmentalist Barry Commoner, who is a member of the association's board of directors, rebuked Moynihan for his walkout and said that the protests against Humphrey may well have stiffened the Senator's disapproval of U.S. policies in Southeast Asia, which Commoner also has heartily denounced. Added retiring A.A.A.S. President Athelstan Spilhaus: "If there weren't these disruptions, it would mean that these meetings were not significant...
...holding out for 12%. The public members are suggesting a mediating 10%. If labor is beaten down, an aerospace strike could erupt; but with unemployment already so high in the industry, there is a big question as to what-if anything-the workers stand to gain by a walkout...