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...mechanism for giving the stockholders, consumers, workers and managers their just equities.'' This fooled no one. Behind closed doors Reuther himself had told unionists that they must cut their demands, take "a more realistic" approach to bargaining. He decided to drive for a 10? hourly wage boost (v. 7? offered by management) plus better unemployment benefits, sliding-scale pensions pegged to cost-of-living, and other fringe benefits...
Pressure. Last week the automakers countered by putting on more pressure for an immediate two-year extension of the current contracts. They warned that some 600,000 U.A.W. members covered by the Big Three contracts will not get their annual 2½% wage boost (averaging 7?an hour) and cost-of-living hike (averaging 2?), due on June 1, unless and until the union signs a contract. In the past, whenever the U.A.W. won a raise, the companies also raised nonunion and salaried employees the same amount. This week the Big Three automakers gave 2½% wage boosts and cost...
...looming 1959 deficit, said Stans, compels the Administration to "look critically at each one of the additional expenditure proposals being urged upon us." And a little elementary arithmetic shows that it will also compel the Administration to ask for another boost in the federal debt ceiling, which Congress reluctantly upped from $275 billion to $280 billion only three months...
...Insane Bickering." The Eisenhower plan got still another big boost, this one from Missouri's bulb-nosed Democratic Congressman Clarence Cannon, 79, chairman of the potent House Appropriations Committee, and a man who considers himself every bit as much a military expert as Carl Vinson. Rising on the House floor, Cannon delivered an old-fashioned stem-winder. "Who is better qualified." demanded Democrat Cannon, "in training, experience, and capacity than General Eisenhower? When it comes to military affairs involving the safety of the people and the survival of our form of government, he is a general, and I take...
Union demands include a wage increase of 50 cents per hour, while the management has offered a 30 cents per hour boost. At present, the carpenters earn $3.25 per hour. Under the union plan, the carpenters would draw $150 weekly, plus an additional $4 each week for health and welfare benefits...