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Death Takes a Holiday. At Fairview Cemetery, N.J., all burials were suspended pending settlement of a gravediggers' strike...
...Administration then devised a wage-price formula based on the expectation that increased production would enable industry to foot increased wage bills out of profits still to come. But materials shortages and secondary strikes had shown that settlement of a major strike was no assurance of profitable production to come. Thus the wage hikes brought price hikes, and the workers' increased pay was largely nullified...
...Wheeler and Wyoming's earnest Joe O'Mahoney. Frankly and flatly they told the President that he was asking the party to wreck itself; perhaps it would be better all around if he withdrew the bill. The rail strike was over; the coal strike was close to settlement. Harry Truman was no longer hopping mad; he thought hard about the political implications of his swift decision five days before. He would consider withdrawing the measure, but he gave no promise...
...peoples of the democracies, and weak nations (which eventually would have to choose sides if the titans should split) could find hope in one thought: that however gruff and bluff nations may act in a serious dispute, they can often reach a settlement at the eleventh hour when they have tested each other's intentions. But it was about quarter to eleven...
When the operators countered with changes that proposed to wipe out all the gains in working conditions that the brotherhoods had made in 50 years of bargaining, the factfinders threw in the sponge. Under the strike settlement, another year would be taken to straighten them...