Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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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...
...Bobotes were Montenegrin villagers from a tiny settlement near the southwestern shore of Lake Scutari (now in Albania...
...describes himself as "the voice of the Indonesian people" got set to leave his troubled capital once more, this time for a sojourn at the government guest house at Tampaksiring in Bali. It was not just another holiday, said Sukarno; he was also "going for the settlement of some important work...
...actors crowded into Manhattan's grubby St. Nicholas Arena felt that contrite. Actress Maureen Stapleton (Toys in the Attic) rushed weeping to the microphone and announced irrelevantly: "This union is my family and my life." The Actors Equity meeting had convened to ratify a settlement of Broadway's week-long theater blackout. Each side claimed victory, but each side had been hurt. Producers toted up losses of over $1,000,000; Equity owed its 741 locked-out members close to $90,000 in per-diem allowances...
Prominent in arranging the settlement was manicured Moss Hart, who treated the combatants like the petulant children they were. Surreptitiously, Playwright-Director Hart herded the negotiating teams into separate rooms at the Fifth Avenue Hotel ("The producers had air-conditioning and a view of the street," pointed out an Equity spokesman), lectured them gently, ran messages. In 14 hours the deadlock was broken. Terms of the Moss-backed compromise...