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...first question presented was whether the nation would have to continue going through the labor pains of strikes before terms of settlement were reached. The second was how much pain, if any, the terms of settlement would mean...
Since the steelworkers' union has no pet theories on ability to pay (see below), and since a steel strike would be ruinous and hence is almost inconceivable in the 1946 U.S. economy, there was a good chance that the fact-finding board could bring about a settlement simply as a catalytic agent. At week's end the board asked the companies and the union to reopen negotiations; it would probably soon look into the matter of steel prices...
...this sweetly reasonable gesture, the company thought the union was "certainly to be commended." But it went on to suggest that settlement of general wage increases be postponed until production volume, costs and profits were known, until company and union had probed their "joint ability to increase the productivity of employes . . . and our ability to get into full production." The company hoped that Leonard would approach the production problem with the same "constructive thought" he had given to work stoppages...
...could look across the border last week to see what happens in a long-drawn-out strike. A note of urgency had set in at Windsor. With one eye on union finances, leaders of 10,000 striking Ford of Canada workers called for rank-&-file support of their new settlement proposal: a Government-appointed arbitrator to give a decision in 24 hours on the key demands for a union shop and checkoff...
Speedy action has resulted in the definite scheduling of the dance. Considerable wrangling developed over the choice of December 15 as the date, and the final settlement was viewed as unsatisfactory by some because it competes with a Radcliffe formal...