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Other good news came from Pittsburgh. A strike threat in U.S. Steel was removed at last when the company signed a new contract giving C.I.O. workers a 10?-an-hour increase, following announcement of a 10? wage rise at both National Steel Corp. and Bethlehem Steel...
...Steel Workers Organizing Committee, which has gained no pay rises since 1937, began negotiating last month with U.S. Steel for a new contract. Its asking price: 10? an hour more pay (current rate: 62½?). The company's bid: 2½? an hour. There was plenty of room for compromise. Big Steel said the industry could absorb a $1 increase, would find 7½? on the borderline, would have to up its prices if the 10? demand went through. When a threatened strike was postponed for more negotiations, everybody expected management and labor to meet halfway. They reckoned without...
...March 24, Aldrich Durant '02, business manager of the University, signed a contract with Stefant and the Waitresses' Union which makes Harvard, the employer, virtual policeman for labor. Beginning on April 30, the University will make union members pay their dues by using the force of dismissal...
...Poonsters G. B. Davis '41, Russell Bowie '41, Coles Phinizy '42 and W. B. G. Putnam '41 drew an airwave grand slam when New York station WNEW dealt them a fourteen-week contract to be "funny" every Friday night at 8 o'clock beginning this week...
...week readers of the Holmes-Pollock Letters found that he was also coauthor of one of the great collections of U.S. letters. The other author was Sir Frederick Pollock, a shy, learned Englishman who was one of the greatest authorities on the English common law, author of Principles of Contract, and The Law of Torts...