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...Government approved. Then rival A.F.L. seamen demanded $22.50-$27.50 boosts. The Wage Stabilization Board, believing that its duty was to hold the wage line, tried to limit A.F.L. to the C.I.O increase. Warned brilliant, 34-year-old Willard Wirtz, onetime law teacher, ardent puzzle fan and chief of WSB: this is a "stepladder" approach to further demands which would mean the end of Harry Truman's badly bent stabilization program...
That was almost WSB's last gurgle as A.F.L. seamen walked off their jobs a fortnight ago. The Administration's problem was how to give them what they wanted, get them back to work and still not make WSB look too silly. The man of the hour turned out to be Labor Secretary Lew Schwellenbach, who crawled into the musty archives of Government precedents and came out with a nugget...
...Breakoff. But that did not end it. Just as WSB had predicted, as A.F.L. seamen walked off the picket lines, N.M.U. seamen-who had honored the A.F.L. strike-rushed in. A.F.L. yelled wrathfully and in some cases A.F.L. longshoremen crossed the rival lines. But Joe Curran's N.M.U., repudiating its two-month-old contract, understandably demanded just as much as A.F.L...
Vice President Hugh Gallagher of the Matson Navigation Co. said sadly: "We followed the rules of collective bargaining. We arrived at what seemed a fair deal. Now we are caught between the Wagner Act and the WSB, like getting caught in gunfire between the door and the bar. About all we can do is lie down on the floor...
About all the public could do was lie down on the floor too. A faltering WSB got ready to meet again this week, figure out some way to get Johnny back on his ship and straighten out this latest venture in Government control. No one had any solution to this strike against the Government but to give in to Johnny...