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...coal mines were to go on strike, the United Mine Workers' astute old John L. Lewis won agreement on a contract from the Bituminous Coal Operators Association giving his miners 1) a $1.90 wage increase on their basic daily wage rate (now $16.35), 2) a 10?-a-ton boost in producers' royalty payments (now 30? a ton) to the union's welfare treasury. Lewis will probably demand and receive similar concessions from the rest of the soft-coal industry, whose contracts expire...
...only because the plant belongs to U.S. taxpayers but also because the manner of its reopening last year caused something of a row. Passing over the firm which had run Nicaro during the war, GSA awarded the operating contract to the Nickel Processing Co., mainly because it offered to boost Nicaro's annual output from 25 to 31 million Ibs. But on the August showing, Nickel Processing, now owned 60% by National Lead Co. and 40% by Cuban interests, was producing at the rate of 24 million Ibs. a year-less than the best World War II rate...
...United Auto Workers have tried to outdo each other in demands on planemakers. Three months ago, in spite of war and the dangerously lagging aircraft program, the U.A.W. voted to strike North American Aviation, called it off only after it got an average 16?-an-hour pay boost on recommendation of the Wage Stabilization Board. The rest of the industry assumed that the award established a pattern...
...machinists' union, which has the bargaining rights at Lockheed and Douglas. It served notice on Lockheed that it wanted an average boost of 16? an hour, refused to submit its demands to WSB. Lockheed said it could not offer more than the WSB pattern. Last week 25,000 (out of 33,000) employees struck at Lockheed's Burbank plant. Work on $1.2 billion in defense orders stopped...
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 21--Soft coal miners today hailed their new contract, giving them a pay boost of $1.90 a day, as a "great victory...