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...trainmen, and 62-year-old Roy 0. Hughes, president of 38,000 conductors. For 17 months, Kennedy and Hughes had been demanding that the carriers cut the work week in yards from 48 hours to 40, at the same time grant a 31?-an-hour wage boost so that yardmen would make as much money as when they worked the full 48. Actually, wages would be higher, since workers would get in more overtime at time-and-a-half. Similar demands were made on behalf of 168,000 trainmen and conductors who worked out on the roads. When management balked...
Roads Seized. At the urging of Dr. John Steelman, Harry Truman's labor adviser, management made another offer. To the fact-finders' offer, they added a 5?-an-hour boost for all hands and an escalator clause guaranteeing a 1? wage boost with every one-point rise in the cost of living. Still Kennedy and Hughes said no. To show they meant business, they ordered a token strike in three terminals and two feeder railroads. Last week, apparently in a more amenable mood, they promised Steelman that they would not extend the token strikes. But 45 minutes later...
...help write the new wage agreement, 45-year-old Chrysler Vice President Lester Colbert sat in on negotiations, the first top production executive to do so in more than a decade. To automen, this was almost as significant as the pay boost...
...strike was a precise job of planning, for a massive delivery of bombs. It made a lot of noise, it may have done some damage, and it may have provided a healthy morale boost for hard-pressed U.S. ground troops, who cheered the big bombers. But the effect on the North Koreans was negligible. Presumably it scared the wits out of them for a while, but next day the Communists launched a major attack (see Battle of Korea) through the area just pulverized...
...Square had gone far beyond the rights granted them in the Constitution. They were giving aid and comfort to the enemy and they should have been thrown in jail and tried for treason. Don't give me that guff about civil liberties . . . The Daily Worker going on the boost for Russia in this war is just as mixed up with the enemy as Seoul City Sue who broadcasts to our troops in Korea . . . I'm sure that if most Americans should walk through the crowded wards [of wounded] they would grab baseball bats and hit a few fungoes...