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...effect of "reducing the employees to mill slaves and the union to an ineffective puppet." He has even more personal reasons for standing firm: rank-and-file union members are deeply aroused over the threat to local working practices, and they might give McDonald real trouble-perhaps through wildcat strikes-if he permitted any weakening of the clauses...
...presidency,* has a problem. His campaign managers have carefully written a moderate's role for him. on the reasonable theory that it will be popular with the voters. But whenever Humphrey takes the speaker's stand, he invariably throws the script away and becomes a wildcat liberal, promising the world to his listeners. "And the people in front of him just don't want the world right now," explains a worried Humphrey advocate. In his offstage moments, Humphrey himself senses the public's present wariness of pie-in-the-sky liberalism. "It's the most...
...from the nation's steel mills last week marched 30,000 wildcat strikers, defying the two-week truce in steel framed by President Eisenhower. Thus did the rank and file put pressure on management for a settlement. United Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald, who had just appealed for "some negotiating statesmanship." immediately ordered the wildcatters back to work. But the short walkouts at major mills such as U.S. Steel's Fairless works and Jones & Laughlin's plant at Aliquippa, Pa. cut holiday week output to about 80% capacity...
Modern prospecting has matured into a science, though man has yet to find a direct method of finding oil. The chances are still long. Only one wildcat field in 42 produces 1,000,000 bbl., and costs are so steep that a million-barrel field barely pays for itself. With risks growing higher and winnings less, fears have cropped up that the U.S., with only a twelve-year known reserve, will run dry of oil. Oilady Knowles disagrees: "Ever since Edwin Drake's discovery 100 years ago, there have been fears of a shortage. Each time...
...were to get injunctive powers, could he not force integration of Southern unions? And would not the Attorney General seek similar powers to enforce civil rights? A.F.L.-C.I.O. lobbyists sought out Republican liberals, argued that the McClellan bill of rights would loosen labor discipline and pave the way for wildcat strikes. Kennedy and staff settled down with Harvard Law Professor Archibald Cox to write a compromise bill of rights, called in moderate Republicans such as California's Tommy Kuchel for help...