Word: strife
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...Fiat. As the returns came in, disappointed Harry Truman decided that the Labor-Management Conference was his last bulwark against industrial strife. He summoned the delegates to the White House; all week long they trooped in to listen to a dead-serious plea for help...
Labor's attitude seemed to be: "The public be damned; let's get ours." Management, long since disarmed in labor strife, stood by, waiting for Government to do something. Government was almost as helpless; it had no firm policy and no means of stopping strikes, except plant seizures; it would lose even that inconclusive weapon six months after the official end of World War II was proclaimed...
...homily hit home; such thoughts were already in the minds of most of the U.S. people. By this week the average, long-suffering U.S. citizen had begun to grow impatient with labor-management strife and the threat of more. He had good cause: he was caught in the middle and he was getting hurt...
Labor talked tough to a Congress that had shown signs of getting tough toward labor. To ease the impact of peacetime conflicts, hoping to forestall a wave of labor strife, the Administration moved urgently. But the hard fact was that sudden peace had caught the Government unprepared; it was not ready for labor's conversion from the uses of wartime regulation and arbitration to peacetime methods of bargaining...
Thus did Italy, and its millions who want no more strife, squeeze through another volcanic week, steaming threats of civil...