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...scholarship level up where he wants it. He is determined to press for a better academic break for Southern Negro high school students. But his main goal is a kind of reverse integration for Howard itself. Instead of holding the line to accommodate Negroes, he intends to hike standards to the point where Howard will attract top scholars of all races-be they white, yellow, brown, or black-just as Harvard and Yale do. Howard already counts 40% white enrollment in its school of social work, and it has 706 students from 43 foreign lands. Nabrit wants more of both...
...Long Island offered its trainmen the five-day week, but tied in the offer with economies that would pare the cost from $350,000 to $200,000 a year. Without these, the Long Island said, it would have to raise fares more than the 4?-a-ride hike planned to cover recent pay increases. Under the road's plan, the union would have had to accept a cut in the Long Island's basic hourly pay rate, which is 3? to 7? higher than on most U.S. railroads, to bring it in line with other roads. The union...
...union contract, signed back in 1955, provided for wage increases ranging from 3% to 3.48%. Carey says that productivity climbed about 6% in 1959, complains that the union got only a 3.46% wage hike. Now, discounting the company's role in helping to increase productivity, he wants another year like 1959 to pay off with a 6% hike in wages. He also wants a minimum-wage increase of 3½% a year, even if productivity does not measure up to that...
RAIL-WAGE HIKE of 4% or about 10? an hour over next 16 months was accepted by 107,000 members of Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and 45,000 members of Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Engineers. Settlement is similar to recent arbitration award to railroad engineers...
...FARE HIKE was granted to twelve domestic and trunk lines. Increase effective July 1, will come in form of additional 2½% charge on each ticket plus $1 for each one-way ticket. New fares will raise revenues by about $84 million annually...