Word: pensionable
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...gave him the same spiel. He said he would see me at 11. When they arrived I took them into my office and said, 'Gentlemen, this thing has got to be settled. I understand that the whole dispute hangs on getting a referee-a third trustee for the pension fund...
...board listened. It decided that John was mostly to blame for the breakdown in negotiations over the pension fund. As for the current strike, which John insisted was not a strike, the board thought it "was more than a coincidence" that after John wrote his miners a letter saying that the operators had "dishonored" the 1947 coal contract, the miners had walked...
Just as real and grim as the shutdown was the dispute. John Lewis insisted that every miner over 60 with 20 years of service should be paid a pension of $100 a month. The operators' Ezra Van Horn insisted that to finance such a plan the present 10?-a-ton royalty on mined coal would have to be raised to 40?. The operators were not going to cough...
...speaking to the general, to tell him Billy was a great guy. Billy explained that he decided to get in touch with his brother only because he would soon be 65, and it would look bad "if Pat Hurley's brother turned up on the old age pension." Why hadn't he written before? Said Billy: "My brother is a famous man, and I am nothing...
...criticized the compensation and pension policy after World...