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...Emergency Situation." Last spring, when the machinists' strike seemed in evitable, the President invoked the 40-year-old Railway Labor Act to postpone the walkout so that a three-man presidential emergency board could study the dispute. Chaired by Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse, a partisan of organized labor, the board ultimately recommended a wage-benefit increase of 3.6%, a notch above L.B.J.'s 3.2% anti-inflationary wage-price guideline. Johnson was pleased nonetheless, urged both labor and management to accept the board's terms. The five airlines-Northwest, TWA, Eastern, United and National-agreed, but the I.A.M...
...then, the strike? Labor experts say the walkout resulted from a blend of union politics, large airline profits and attempts by the Johnson Administration to keep the settlement within its anti-inflation guidelines...
...machinists seem to have underestimated President Johnson's commitment to this point. Union leaders probably planned a short strike, hoping that a walkout in the middle of the industry's money-making season would cause the airlines to cave in quickly. Management probably would not have been too displeased by an expensive settlement, since they would then be able to plead poverty when the CAB demanded further fare cuts...
...four-day walkout by 34,400 mechanics and other ground service workers of the International Association Machinists against Eastern, National, Northwest, Trans World, and United Airlines affects more than 150,000 air passengers...
There were no indications yesterday that the union planned to halt the walkout. The union's weekly newspaper said Saturday that "we can expect some shortsighted bird-brains" to propose further cooling-off periods...