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Over & beyond all that was the matter of the national welfare. "A wage increase in steel," the fact-finders reasoned, "would be urged as a pattern to be followed in other industries; this in turn might well cause price dislocations . . . interruptions to production might ensue." Steel workers themselves "would run the risk of losing more than they had gained." Said the board: "In general, it seems desirable at this time to stabilize the level of wage rates . . . the union [should] withdraw its request for a general increase in rates...
...union negotiators never came near them, or when they did, carried on only token bargaining; they all had to do what Big Steel did. The union answered that it was a waste of time bargaining with anyone but the industry's handful of top firms, who set the pattern for all. Big & little firms, they were all in the same labor market...
Science & Poetry. "I have been," writes Trevelyan, "not an original but a traditional kind of historian." Unlike Arnold Toynbee, he saw no pattern in the past, evolved no sweeping philosophy of history. "Philosophy must be brought to history, it cannot be extracted from it. And I have no philosophy of my own to bring, beyond a love of things good and a hatred of things evil...
Items in the pattern of puppetry...
...dollars by selling in the U.S. and the balance by selling such surpluses as grain and timber to Britain and the rest of the world. Because of the dollar shortage, Britain and many another customer have slashed their purchases in Canada, and have thus ripped apart the historic pattern of Canadian trade. This week, three Canadian cabinet ministers are in Washington for the U.S.-British economic talks (see INTERNATIONAL), hoping eagerly for some near-miraculous solution that will avert the crisis Canada faces in her dwindling dollar supply...