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They were the men who had ordered a boycott of the Wage Stabilization Board a fortnight ago when three of their colleagues had been outvoted on a 10% wage-boost formula (TIME, Feb. 26). They were confronted by a stubborn, wrathful Wilson, who had already agreed that Stabilizer Eric Johnston should sign the formula and make ft law. For 2½ hours the men of the U.L.P.C. argued, mostly in billingsgate; a neutral observer described labor's bosses as behaving "like six-year-olds." Chiefly -and raucously-they demanded more say in the whole mobilization program. Particularly, they wanted...
...workers, members of 15 non-operating unions (clerks, signalmen, freight handlers, etc.), had asked for a 25?-an-hour boost, retroactive to Dec. 1. The railroads met them half way with 12½, but wanted it retroactive only to March 1. The final agreement, engineered by Presidential Assistant John Steelman: 12½ retroactive...
...lent the balance. With 1951's business still gaining (February profit: $150,000 before taxes), Slick has made similar deals for two more DC-6As to be delivered later this year, for a total $3,500,000 expansion. The three new planes (payload: 30,000 Ibs. each) will boost his cargo capacity almost...
...resentments: the President's recent attack on the railway brotherhood chieftains; the fact that Labor Secretary Maurice Tobin, labor's great & good friend, had been denied a position of more influence. They were bitter over the fact that John L. Lewis had pried loose a 20% wage boost for his miners. But above all, the bosses of Big Labor resented being left out of the top policy-making jobs in the defense program, while bosses from Big Business run the show. Big Labor knows very well that a $140 billion mobilization program is bound to have far-reaching...
...White House to demand that gin cotton be freed as well as farm cotton. Their argument was that the freeze would actually force prices up by keeping down production and encouraging merchants to upgrade their cotton to get better prices. Agriculture Secretary Charles F. Brannan, who wants a 60% boost in cotton production this year (from 10,000,000 to 16,000,000 bales), agreed...