Word: wsb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pittsburgh Steel, twelfth biggest U.S. producer (capacity: 1,072,000 tons), came to terms with the union. It agreed to a modified union shop (new employees must join the union but can quit within the first month) plus an increase of 12½? an hour, v. 15? recommended by WSB. Just as promptly, National Steel's Ernest T. Weir, who has fought the national union, handed out a bigger raise (16?) to the 13,000 members of his independent union, who hadn't struck. Murray, picking off smaller mills one at a time, last week claimed that...
...President Alben Barkley gave them his congratulations for their "fairness" and "consideration." To the steel companies, the Veep gave the back of his hand. "It is un-American," he said, "for any group . . . to defy . . . the verdict of a Government agency . . ." (He meant steel's unwillingness to accept WSB recommendations, although they are not binding on disputants.) For the Veep it was quite a speech, but it was Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin who won the fawning contest. After Phil Murray had pinned a convention badge on him, Tobin said: "I don't feel any obligation...
Regional Public Service: WSB & WSB-TV, for "promoting the best interests of Atlanta, Ga. and the Southeast" in WSB's The Pastor's Study and WSB-TV's Our World Today...
...that also mean that the Government would give the Government-operated plants a price rise? Not if Price Stabilizer Ellis Arnall could call the tune. Georgian Arnall lashed out at the companies for their insistence that the WSB benefits would add $12 a ton to production costs. Steel could have a price boost under the Capehart Amendment of $3 a ton, he declared, but no more. "I'm not going to any Munich ... If the price of peace is surrender and a steel price increase, we're not going to have peace . . ." The companies struck back with full...
...Administration) began hearings on a bill that would regulate Government seizures. The Senate Judiciary Committee (unfavorable to the Administration) prepared to rake over the constitutionality of Truman's action. With the Administration still backing him up, Steelworker Boss Philip Murray berated the companies, and called for the full WSB score, down to the last quarter note: "I expect the Government of the U.S. to impose the [WSB] recommendations...