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...settlement comes, the crucial test will be whether General Motors and Chrysler, which have presented a united front with Ford during bargaining, will also present a united front during a strike. Talk was that they might trim production, or shut down, in sympathy with Ford, undercut Reuther's whipsaw tactics. Following a poor year that saw G.M.'s Chevy alone outsell all Ford cars, Ford could not afford to stand idle while competitors were producing. But the U.A.W. could not long afford a joint showdown by the Big Three. The union might be faced with $12 million...
...some good for the automakers. In labor relations, they have fewer problems than they had expected this year. At the start of negotiations for a new contract last month, Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers asked for a 35?-45?-an-hour wage package and tried a familiar whipsaw strategy to get it. The U.A.W. fired off contract termination notices to Ford and Chrysler but not to G.M., obviously hoped to force the two smaller companies to settle, then use the settlements to pressure G.M. into line. But when the industry formed a united front and showed no signs...
...industry-wide basis." Industry-wide bargaining would cost Reuther his major weapon in wage negotiations: the "key bargaining" tactic by which he singles out one company for attack, then uses that settlement as a pattern for the others. In 1955, at the last auto bargaining, Reuther's whipsaw worked to perfection and wrecked the industry's informal agreement to hold firm against demands for a guaranteed annual wage. When G.M. refused to give ground, the union turned on Ford. Fearing that G.M. would gain a new edge in the market if the union went on strike, Ford capitulated...
Tunisia's Premier Tahar ben Amar was also in Paris to negotiate fresh concessions from the French. The day the Moroccan declaration was signed, Premier ben Amar conferred earnestly with Ben Youssef. Between them, the Moroccans and Tunisians had set up a political whipsaw which had France dodging. Tunisia was the first to win local self-government, from then-Premier Mendès-France. Moroccans promptly demanded the same thing, and with the precedent of Tunisia, no succeeding government could deny them. Now the Tunisians were back to get whatever the Moroccans got. Said Ben Youssef to Premier...
...attorneys were entitled to trial by jury in another court. Added Douglas and Frankfurter: "One who reads the record . . . will have difficulty in determining whether members of the bar conspired to drive a judge from the bench, or whether the judge used the authority of the bench to whipsaw the lawyers, to talk and tempt them, and to create for himself the role of the persecuted...