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Instead of making recommendations for wage settlements, as in steel, WSB can now only approve or disapprove of bargaining agreements already reached. And most unions, having used up most of their allowable wage increases, are after more than is permissible. The rubber workers, for example, are entitled to only about 5? an hour in cost-of-living increases. This week they settled with Goodyear for 10?, and the case will soon come before the board. John L. Lewis, for another, will hardly settle for the 10? his coal miners are entitled...
Exit Charlie. In the public eye, the WSB recommendations gave Phil Murray's case the sanctity of an impartial Government verdict. Mobilizer Charles Wilson tried to convince Harry Truman that industry should get a $5-to-$6-a-ton price increase if it signed a wage agreement on the basis of the WSB report. But when Price Stabilizer (and good Democrat) Ellis Arnall heard of the Wilson-Truman conversations, Arnall persuaded the President that any price increase was unwise for two reasons: 1) economics, 2) politics. Wilson stormed back to his office and wrote out his resignation. Murray...
...WSB findings, made their first offer-a package of 16?. Then they went to 20?, just 6? less than the WSB had recommended. But Murray wasn't interested. The steelworkers had already been tipped that the President would seize the industry if negotiations broke down. And they guessed (correctly) that, once Truman was running the steel mills, he would try to give them the full WSB terms...
...seizure announcement, Truman lashed out in fine style against his old whipping boy, "the interests." praising the WSB recommendations as "fair and reasonable," snapping at "the greedy companies" for demanding a price increase...
Vice President Barkley, the loyal party trumpeter, traveled to Philadelphia to tell 2,500 steelworkers that "it is as un-American for any group [i.e., Big Steel] to defy or deny or disregard the verdict of a governmental agency [i.e., the WSB] as it is to defy the verdict of a jury in a court of justice...