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The Wage Stabilization Board (WSB) was an independent agency of the United States government whose function was make wage control policy recommendations to the Office of Defense Mobilization, and to implement such wage controls as were approved.[1] The WSB was established on September 9, 1950, to assist the government in the prosecution of the Korean War, and was abolished on April 30, 1953.

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[edit] Establishment of the WSB

Main article: Defense Production Act

The Korean War broke out on June 25, 1950. After an initial (and significant) surge of inflation, President Harry S. Truman's war mobilization effort began to achieve some success in stabilizing the American economy.[2][3][4][5]

On September 8, 1950, the Congress enacted the Defense Production Act. The Act gave the President statutory authority to order companies to do business with the United States in order to furnish equipment and services needed for national defense; to establish federal agencies as needed to implement the Act; and to allocate resources, personnel and funds to ensure national defense needs were met.[2][3][4] However, the Act tied wage controls to prices. If any price ceiling was imposed, the government was required to issue regulations and orders stabilizing wages in the affected industry.[6]

The next day, President Truman issued Executive Order (EO) 10161. The order created the Economic Stabilization Agency (ESA) and Wage Stabilization Board (WSB).[1][7] Under EO 10161, the Wage Stabilization Board was authorized to control wages only for hourly employees.[4] However, the WSB's authority in this regard was extremely limited. [8]


[edit] Structure

The Economic Stabilization Agency had overall authority to coordinate and implement wage and price policies. Within ESA were three sub-agencies:

  • The Office of Price Stabilization (OPS), which recommended price control polices to the ESA, and implemented policies which ESA had approved.
  • The Wage Stabilization Board, which recommended wage control policies to the ESA, and implemented policies which ESA had approved.
  • The Office of the Housing Expediter (OHE), which recommended rent control policies to the ESA, and implemented policies which ESA had approved.[9]

The WSB was overseen by nine "representatives." A tripartite structure was not new; it had been effectively utilized during World War II by a number of federal agencies and boards.[7] EO 10161 specifically required that three representatives be members of the public, three be "representative of labor," and three be "representative of business and industry".[7][10]

Initially, the WSB's three "public" members were Cyrus S. Ching, director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; . The three labor representatives were Harry C. Bates, president of the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers; Emil Rieve, president of the Textile Workers Union of America; and Elmer Walker, president of the International Association of Machinists. The three business representatives were Oto Seyferth, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce; Claude Putnam, president of the National Association of Manufacturers; and Marion Folsom, president of the Committee for Economic Development.[10]

Salary Stabilization Board (SSB) established as an ESA constituent unit by General Order 8, ESA Administrator, May 10, 1951.


[edit] History

Executive Order 10233, dated April 21, 1951, by which the reconstituted Board was established.


Abolished: By EO 10276, July 31, 1951. Successor Agencies: Office of Rent Stabilization, Economic Stabilization Agency (continuation of rent control programs);

The influx of military personnel and defense workers into key defense areas has caused a sharp increase in the demand for rental housing. To meet the danger of excessive rent increases, the Director of Defense Mobilization and the Secretary of Defense have already authorized the imposition of rent controls in about 100 areas. In each case, special aids--discussed under Housing and Community Development-are also being provided to encourage rapid expansion in the supply of rental housing. The Office of Rent Stabilization is now administering rent controls in these and other areas covering about 6.8 million rental units. It is estimated that by the end of the fiscal year 1953, tenants in 10 million rental units will be protected by Federal rent control.


WAGE BOARD RULES IN FIRST DISPUTE; Proposes 18-Cent Hourly Rise at American Smelter Plant --Will He... [PDF] WASHINGTON, Oct. 19--The Wage Stabilization Board settled its first dispute case today by proposing pay increases averaging 18 cents an hour at the American Smelting, and Refining Company's smelter in Garfield, Utah....View free preview October 20, 1951 - Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

OPS also found many of its efforts undercut by salary rulings of the WSB, especially in the steelworkers' salary dispute of March 1952.


Executive Order 10377 Providing for the Composition of the Wage Stabilization Board Signed: July 25, 1952

Executive Order 10390 Amending Executive Order No. 10161 of September 9, 1950, as Amended, To Provide for Certain Alternate Members of the Wage Stabilization Board Signed: August 30, 1952


[edit] Abolition

On 6 February 1953, President Dwight Eisenhower's Executive Order 10434 called for the end of all price and wage controls. OPS ended all activities on 30 April 1953 with residual operations passing to ESA.

Abolished: Effective April 30, 1953, by EO 10434, February 6, 1953, following suspension of wage and salary controls.


[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b "Executive Order 10161, September 9, 1950," John Woolley and Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project, no date.
  2. ^ a b Hogan, A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945-1954, 1998.
  3. ^ a b Kaufman, The Korean War: Challenges in Crisis, Credibility, and Command, 1997.
  4. ^ a b c Pierpaoli, "Truman's Other War: The Battle for the American Homefront, 1950-1953," Magazine of History, Spring 2000.
  5. ^ Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index, All Urban Consumers-(CPI-U), U.S. City Average, All Items, April 17, 2007.
  6. ^ "Everybody's Fight," Time, September 18, 1950.
  7. ^ a b c Horowitz, "Administrative Problems of the Wage Stabilization Board," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, April 1954.
  8. ^ Loftus, "Truman Establishes Agency To Bar Inflation as U.S. Arms," New York Times, September 10, 1950.
  9. ^ "Bureaucracy in Blossom," Time, February 26, 1951.
  10. ^ a b Loftus, "Truman Setting Up Price Unit with Ching Slated As Head," New York Times, September 30, 1950.

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LABOR SETS TERMS FOR WAGE CONTROL, DROPS OPPOSITION. December 21, 1950, Thursday By LOUIS STARK Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. Organized labor in America has established a United Labor Policy Committee composed of representatives of the American Federation of Labor, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the Railway Labor Executives Association and the International Association of Machinists.


STABILIZING ORDER FREEZES PAY PACTS IN AUTO INDUSTRY Move Effective Until March 1 Follows Rollback of Prices to Levels of Dec. 1 COVERS MILLION WORKERS Escalator Clauses That Base Rates on Cost of Living Are Not Affected Now; First Wage Ceiling Imposed Stabilization Directive Freezes Pay Pacts in the Auto Industry For "Careful Study" of Policy. December 23, 1950, Saturday By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.

PARLEY ON WAGES CALLED BY CHING; Leaders of Labor and Industry Invited to Present Views on Policy in January December 29, 1950, Friday By LOUIS STARK Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES The views of labor and management on wage-stabilization policy will be laid before the Wage Stabilization Board on Jan. 10, 11 and 12.

LABOR DRAWS UP ITS TERMS FOR STABILIZATION OF WAGES; It Wants the Escalator Clause, 'Improvement Factor' and Strict Controls on Prices Terms for Stabilization Parallels World War II Something Tangible Asked Differentials Are Changed December 31, 1950, Sunday By LOUIS STARK Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. With price freezes apparently in the offing, wage controls are inevitable under the terms of the economic stabilization law. Labor agrees with the principle of wage stabilization, but its leaders have some ideas of their own about the mechanics and operation.


LABOR GIVES POLICY ON WAGE CONTROLS; Demands Anti-Inflation Action First and Scores Board for Lack of Authority Controls Proposals Reviewed Specific Recommendations January 12, 1951, Friday By LOUIS STARK Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, Jan. 11--Labor is not disposed to agree to wage stabilization until all elements of the economy are subjected to effective anti-inflation controls, it was announced today. TIGHTER PRICE LIDS DEMANDED BY A.F.L. January 24, 1951 - By LOUIS STARK Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.


CHAMBER OPPOSES WAGE-PRICE CURBS; Tells Ching Business Favors 'Indirect' Controls Now-- Policy Hearings End World Bar "Escalator" Rises Choice of Benefits Backed January 13, 1951, Saturday By LOUIS STARK Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, Jan. 12--The Chamber of Commerce of the United States today opposed wageprice controls for the present.


PAY FREEZE WAITS AS LABOR ON BOARD HESITATES TO SIGN WASHINGTON, Jan. 25--The Wage Stabilization Board balked today at ordering a general wage freeze and there was some doubt that the long-awaited price-wage order would be ready tomorrow....View free preview January 26, 1951 - By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


WIDE ACTION TAKEN; AFTER WAGE-PRICE FREEZE DECISION WAGES AND PRICES PUT UNDER CURBS [PDF] WASHINGTON, Jan. 26--Blanket orders freezing both wages and prices as of midnight Thursday were invoked by the Government tonight to curb inflation....View free preview January 27, 1951 - By CHARLES E. EGAN Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES Texts of Four U.S. Regulations Clarifying Policy on the Freezing of Wages; General Regulation No. 1. (AP)-- Following are the texts of the Wage Stabilization Board's orders today dealing with the wage freeze February 1, 1951 PAY FREEZE EASED FOR CERTAIN CASES; Merit and Length-of-Service Increases Permitted--Coal Retail Pr... [PDF] WASHINGTON, Feb. 2--The Wage Stabilization Board tonight modified the more rigid features of its "freeze" order of a week ago to permit merit rises and lengthof-service pay increases. The object of tonight's order, it was explained, was to permit normal c...View free preview February 3, 1951 - By CHARLES E. EGAN Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

LABOR OBJECTION BLOCKS PAY POLICY; Stabilization Board Delays Issuance as Group Protests Lack of Specific Exemption Announcement Was Planned Further Discord Shown Deep Dissension Noted January 31, 1951, Wednesday By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.


WAGE BOARD LETS SOME SCALES RISE; Authorizes Regional Unit to Rule on Pay Increases Under Commitmen... [PDF] A step to "thaw" the Jan. 25 "wage freeze" and make it a wagestabilization measure permitting increases within the pattern of the employer's commitments and past practices was taken yesterday by the Wage Stabilization Board....View free preview February 8, 1951 - By WILL LISSNER - Article

LABOR-MANAGER UNIT SET UP BY JOHNSTON [PDF] WASHINGTON, Feb. 7--Eric Johnston, Economic Stabilization Administrator, set up a labor-management advisory committee today to help him on stabilization problems....View free preview February 8, 1951 - Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. - Article

CHRYSLER PLAN APPROVED; Wage Board Lets Company Pay Half of Worker Insurance [PDF] View free preview February 9, 1951 - Article

STABILIZING HELD UNFAIR TO WORKER; Two Union Groups Say Federal Program Holds Down Wages While Pric... [PDF] WASHINGTON, Feb. 8--Two labor organizations bitterly assailed the Government's economic policies today....View free preview February 9, 1951 - Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.


CHING TO RESIGN WAGE POST; LIVING-COST PAY RISES URGED; MEAT SLAUGHTERING CURBED; FIGURES IN POSSIB... [PDF] WASHINGTON, Feb. 9--A basic wage formula that would permit cost-of-living adjustments for all workers temporarily has been proposed by public members of the nine-man Wage Stabilization Board....View free preview February 10, 1951 - By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


LABOR, IN ANGRY MOOD, PROTESTS IT IS LEFT OUT; Leaders Demand a Voice in the Plans For Mobilization... [PDF] WASHINGTON, Feb. 10--As the nation's mobilization program begins to gather momentum, organized labor is expressing strong dissatisfaction with some of its principal aspects. Its sense of frustration has led to serious tension between labor and the Executi...View free preview February 11, 1951 - By LOUIS STARK Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


LABOR MAN PICKED AS JOHNSTON AIDE; GETS DEFENSE POST LABOR MAN PICKED AS JOHNSTON AIDE [PDF] WASHINGTON, Feb. 10--Eric Johnston, Economic Stabilization Administrator, appointed George M. Harrison, president of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, A.F.L., as his special assistant today....View free preview February 11, 1951 - By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


BOARD TO CONSIDER WAGE COMPROMISE; Agrees Freeze Must Be Eased --Labor Fights Plan Based on 'Little... [PDF] WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (UP)-- The Wage Stabilization Board, under mounting pressure to relax the freeze on collective bargaining contracts, will meet Tuesday to consider a compromise formula for permitting general pay increases....View free preview February 12, 1951


12% 'Catch-Up' Pay Rises Urged By Labor Members of Wage Board; WAGE BOARD LABOR ASKS 12% PAY RISE L... [PDF] WASHINGTON, Feb. 13--Labor members of the Wage Stabilization Board proposed today a "catch-up" formula that would permit pay increases of 12 per cent to cover the period from May 24 to Dec. 15, 1950, with cost-of-living adjustments monthly thereafter....View free preview February 14, 1951 - By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.


WAGE BOARD VOTES 10% RISE FORMULA; LABOR GROUP QUITS; Stabilization Unit Sets Policy on Pay--Increa... [PDF] WASHINGTON, Friday, Feb. 16 --The Wage Stabilization Board, by a vote of 6 to 3, early today adopted a basic pay policy for the nation's work force and employers, and the three labor members withdrew from the board in protest....View free preview February 16, 1951 - By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


SHIP PARLEYS UPSET BY REIN ON PAY RISE; Bethlehem and C.I.O. Union to Meet Again Today as Mediator ... [PDF] The action of the Wage Stabilization Board in restricting general wage increases to a 10 per cent maximum has caused the wage review talks between the Bethlehem Steel Company and the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America, C.I.O., ...View free preview February 17, 1951 - Article

WOOL STRIKE CHIEF APPEALS TO TRUMAN; Rieve Urges Mobilization Be Taken From 'Big Business' --70,000... [PDF] Emil Rieve, president of the striking Textile Workers Union of America, C.I.O., appealed to President Truman yesterday to take the mobilization program out of the hands of "big business men."...View free preview February 17, 1951 - By STANLEY LEVEY - Article

FULL DEFENSE ROLE LABOR'S AIM IN RIFT WITH WAGE BOARD; Withdrawal of Three Members of U.S. Group Dr... [PDF] WASHINGTON, Feb. 16--Labor converted its walk-out on the wage controls today into a powerful bid for a "new deal" in the mobilization program....View free preview February 17, 1951 - By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. - Front Page

Union Leader Assails Proposed Pay Ceiling; Chicago Packing Local Urges Strike Now [PDF] CHICAGO, Feb. 16--A ceiling of 10 per cent on wage increases recommended by the Wage Stabilization Board at Washington early today was labeled "monstrously unfair" by Ralph Helstein, president of the United Packinghouse Workers Union, C.I.O....View free preview February 17, 1951 - Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. - Article

MEDIATORS SCORED IN RAIL PAY DISPUTE; National Board Fails to Get Parties Together, Spokesman for B... [PDF] WASHINGTON, Feb. 16--A spokesman for one of the "big four" railway brotherhoods today criticized the National (Railway) ......View free preview February 17, 1951 - By LOUIS STARK Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. - Article


WILSON ASKS LABOR FOR TOP-LEVEL AIDE, BUT BATTLE LOOMS; Union Leaders, Already Angry, Challenge Tru... [PDF] WASHINGTON, Feb. 17--Angry labor leaders received a letter today from Charles E. Wilson, Director of Defense Mobilization, inviting them to nominate a member of his top policy staff....View free preview February 18, 1951 - By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. - Front Page

LABOR FORGES NEW UNITY ON STABILIZATION ISSUES; THREE OBSERVATIONS ON THE WAGE-PRICE CONTROL PICTURE [PDF] WASHINGTON, Feb. 17--Labor's rebellion against the wage policy adopted by the industry and public members of the Wage Stabilization Board has dramatized the power, significance and authority of labor's comparatively new "general staff."...View free preview February 18, 1951 - By LOUIS STARK Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


Truman Enters Pay Board Row; New Policy to Be Issued Monday; PRESIDENT ENTERS PAY BOARD DISPUTE [PDF] WASHINGTON, Feb. 23--President Truman took a hand in the wage stabilization controversy today by arranging a conference at Blair House this evening. As a result it is expected that a wage policy will be issued by Monday....View free preview February 24, 1951 - By LOUIS STARK Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. -


Johnston Affirms 10% Rise For Wages, but Fight Looms; Labor's Return "Hoped" For JOHNSTON AFFIRMS 10% PAY-RISE ORDER Labor Leaders Restive

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More information. February 28, 1951, Wednesday By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. Page 1, 715 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 Eric Johnston, Economic Stabilization Administrator, today approved the basic pay-rise regulation that was recommended by the Wage Stabilization Board's public and industry members, but directed the agency to liberalize it.


LABOR QUITS ALL MOBILIZATION POSTS; DENOUNCES WAGE AND PRICE FORMULAS AS 'GREAT WRONGS' IN BLAST AT... [PDF] WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 Labor called a general walkout of its representatives at all mobilization agencies today. In a blistering attack on Charles E. Wilson, Director of Defense Mobilization, union leaders accused him of allowing "big business" to dominate t...View free preview March 1, 1951 - By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


CEILING IS NO BAR; New Wage Policy Gives No Exemptions for Deferred Rises PRESIDENT BACKS WILSON As... [PDF] WASHINGTON, March 1 Erie Johnston, Economic Stabilization Administrator, modified the Government wage policy today to permit cost-of-living increases under "escalator" clauses signed before Jan. 25, the date of the wage freeze. The 10 per cent ceiling on ...View free preview March 2, 1951 - By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


NEW WAGE ORDERS ALLOW MORE RISES; Johnston Issues Regulations, Since Board With Labor Men Out Is No... [PDF] WASHINGTON, March 8 New wage regulations were issued today putting limits on the rates paid in new plants and extending the pay rises allowed in earlier orders to additional, related groups of employes....View free preview March 9, 1951 - By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


LABOR BLAST HELD 'LIE' BY JOHNSTON; Stabilizer Denies That Wilson Influenced Decisions of U.S. Wage... [PDF] WASHINGTON, March 10--Eric Johnston, Economic Stabilization Administrator, stamped "lie" today on statements that Charles E. Wilson, Director of Defense Mobilization, influenced decisions of the Wage Stabilization Board....View free preview March 11, 1951 - By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. -


JOHNSTON WILL LET WAGE CRISIS 'REST'; Defends Compromise Formula --Says Session With Packer Union W... [PDF] WASHINGTON, March 15--Eric Johnston, Economic Stabilization Administrator, said today he was going to let the problem of reviving or replacing the Wage Stabilization Board rest for the present....View free preview March 16, 1951 - By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES



WAGES BOARD PLAN OF JOHNSTON GAINS; Labor Is Receptive to It and Business Will Not Fight it, but Hi... [PDF] WASHINGTON, March 16-- Labor leaders will accept the "Johnston Plan" for replacing the Wage Stabilization Board and business organizations will not fight it....View free preview March 17, 1951 - By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. - Article

LABOR-INDUSTRY DIVIDED ON KIND OF WAGE BOARD; Whether It Should Handle All or Only Some Disputes Is... [PDF] WASHINGTON, March 17-- Labor and industry are locked in a fundamental struggle focused directly on the nation's major defense policies and indirectly on broader horizons....View free preview March 18, 1951 - By LOUIS STARK Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. -


JOHNSTON VISITS TRUMAN; No Progress Toward Solving Wage Problem Reported in Key West [PDF] KEY WEST, Fla., March 20-- No progress toward a solution of the wage stabilization dispute was reported here today....View free preview March 21, 1951 - By ANTHONY LEVIERO Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. - Article

LABOR LIMITS STAY ON NEW WAGE BODY; Will Not Commit Itself Beyond June 30, Murray Declares-- Defens... [PDF] WASHINGTON, March 20--Organized labor will not commit itself to sit on a new wage disputes board beyond June 30....View free preview March 21, 1951 - By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. - Front Page

NEW TALKS HINTED IN WAGE IMPASSE; Johnston Silent on Reports He Plans Conference to Form Another Di... [PDF] WASHINGTON, March 21--Eric Johnston, Economic Stabilization. Administrator, was reported today to be trying to arrange a conference of labor, management and public representatives as a prelude to setting up a new disputes board....View free preview March 22, 1951 - Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.


Truman Calls In High Advisers To Solve Stabilization Problems; TRUMAN CONFERS ON STABILIZATION [PDF] WASHINGTON, March 24-- President Truman called a major conference of his defense advisers today to consider growing inflation stresses in general and the problem of labor-management disputes machinery in particular....View free preview March 25, 1951 - By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


LEGAL STAGE IS SET FOR NEW PAY BOARD; Exact Set-Up Is Not Disclosed but Johnston Meets Labor Today,...  [PDF]

WASHINGTON, March 27--An agreement on legal requirements for the setting up of a new wage disputes board was reached today by lawyers of the Department of Justice and the Economic Stabilization Agency. They worked on the problem under direct orders from P...View free preview March 28, 1951 - Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


18-MAN WAGE BODY LIKELY THIS WEEK; Method of Granting New Board Needed Authority Reported Found by ... [PDF] WASHINGTON, April 2--President Truman was reported today to be planning creation of a new eighteen-member Wage Stabilization Board this week to end the long deadlock over the powers to be assigned to such a body....View free preview April 3, 1951 - By LOUIS STARK Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


LABOR LEADERS GET WHITE HOUSE CALL; Truman Invites Chiefs for Talk on Participation in His Policy A...  [PDF]

WASHINGTON, April 3--President Truman has called labor leaders to a White House meeting on Thursday to discuss labor participation on the National Advisory Board on mobilization policy....View free preview April 4, 1951 - Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


TRUMAN INDUCES UNIONS TO RETURN TO DEFENSE SET-UP; Labor Chiefs Agree at Meeting in White House to ... [PDF] WASHINGTON, April 5--Labor leaders, at President Truman's persuasion, returned to the defense program today at the topmost level--the National Advisory Board on Mobilization Policy. They said that they hoped this would lead to labor peace with all mobiliz...View free preview April 6, 1951 - By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


WAY OPENED FOR LABOR IN MOBILIZATION SET-UP; Representation on Advisory Board Is Believed to Be the... [PDF] WASHINGTON, April 7--Labor's acceptance of President Truman's invitation to his top-level advisory board on mobilization policy has raised this question: Does it mean that labor is now willing to bury the hatchet, make up with the Administration and retur...View free preview April 8, 1951 - By LOUIS STARK Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


INDUSTRY REJECTS WAGE BOARD PACT; N.A.M. Holds Truman Formula Too Broad--Accuses Labor of Undermini... [PDF] White House hopes for management-labor agreement on plans for reviving the Wage Stabilization Board were set back last night when it became known that the National Association of Manufacturers......View free preview April 16, 1951 - By A.H. RASKIN - Article


PAY BOARD DISPUTE UPTO TRUMAN AGAIN AS INDUSTRY BALKS; Management Rejects 'Accord' --Mobilization A... [PDF] WASHINGTON, April 16--The future of the Wage Stabilization Board will be thrust back into President Truman's hands tomorrow when his National Advisory Board on Mobilization Policy meets....View free preview April 17, 1951 - By LOUIS STARK Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


Board for Labor Disputes Urged, But Johnston Calls Plan Illegal; PAY BOARD TO SIFT DISPUTES IS URGE... [PDF] WASHINGTON, April 17--President Truman's National Advisory Board on Mobilization Policy, by a 12-to-4 vote, advised him today to set up a new Wage Stabilization Board having the right to make recommendations in labor disputes of any kind which substantial...View free preview April 18, 1951 - By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. - Front Page


TRUMAN TO SET UP NEW WAGE BOARD; He Follows Recommendations of His Advisory Group on Mobilization P... [PDF] WASHINGTON, April 18--President Truman decided today to set up an eighteen-man Wage Stabilization Board of labor, industry and public members as recommended by his National Advisory Board on Mobilization Policy yesterday....View free preview April 19, 1951 - By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


CHAIRMAN CHOSEN FOR NEW PAY BOARD; TO HEAD WAGE BOARD More information. April 20, 1951, Friday By LOUIS STARK Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.The New York Times


CHING QUITS POST IN PAY STABILIZING; He Returns to Head Mediation Service, With Dr. Taylor Set to L... [PDF] WASHINGTON, April 20 President Truman accepted today the resignation of Cyrus S. Ching as chairman of the Wage Stabilization Board "in accordance with our understanding of last September."...View free preview April 21, 1951 - By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


NEW WAGE BOARD SET UP BY TRUMAN; Eighteen-Member Stabilization Body Can Advise Settlement of Some N... [PDF] WASHINGTON, April 21--President Truman reconstituted, the Wage Stabilization Board today as an eighteen-member agency with authority to recommend settlements in certain non-wage disputes....View free preview April 22, 1951 - Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


Labor Ends 2-Month Boycott, Returns to Defense Boards; AIDE TO WILSON [PDF] WASHINGTON, April 30--Labor voted today to return representatives to all defense agencies, which it boycotted on Feb. 16....View free preview May 1, 1951 - By LOUIS STARK Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


NEW WAGE BOARD FILLED BY TRUMAN; 18-Member Unit Starts Work Tuesday--Agency to Decide Salaries Also... [PDF] WASHINGTON, May 3--A reconstituted Wage Stabilization Board, with a full complement of eighteen members, will start work Tuesday, and a new salary stabilization board is expected to be set up soon....View free preview May 4, 1951 - Special to The New York Times


BENEFIT RISE SEEN IN LIEU OF MORE PAY; Many Big Companies Reported Studying Expansion of Their Welf... [PDF] Most larger corporations soon may expand existing "fringe bene fits," such as group insurance and pension plans, to offset their inability to grant wage increases....View free preview May 6, 1951 - By ALFRED R. ZIPSER Jr. - Article

LABOR NOW POWER IN DEFENSE SET-UP; Spokesmen Will Have a Voice at the Policy-Making Level in All Im... [PDF] WASHINGTON, May 5--Organized labor ended two months of foot-dragging this week and adopted a comprehensive policy of cooperating with the defense production agencies....View free preview May 6, 1951 - By LOUIS STARK Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.


SALARIES ARE PUT UNDER NEW BOARD; Johnston Sets Up 3-Man Panel to Function Along Lines of Wage Stab... [PDF] WASHINGTON, May 8--The newly constituted eighteen-member Wage Stabilization Board planned a broad attack on a backlog of 1,100 cases at its first meeting today....View free preview May 9, 1951 - By LOUIS STARK Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


DEMANDS OF UNIONS FOR SIXTH PAY RISE WORRY WASHINGTON; Expiring Contracts and Pacts for Increases T... [PDF] WASHINGTON, May 13--Mounting pressure by organized labor for what, in some cases, would be a sixth "round" of wage increases since the end of World War II is causing some apprehension among Government officials....View free preview May 14, 1951 - By LOUIS STARK Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


WAGE BOARD SCOPE STIRS HOUSE TO ACT; Committee Is Named to Inquire Into Functions in Disputes Other... [PDF] WASHINGTON, May 17--Congress gave signs today of reviving the row over the functions that President Truman, by executive order, gave to the Wage Stabilization Board in disputes other than those over wages. Business spokesmen protested strongly....View free preview May 18, 1951 - By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. - Article


WAGE-PRICE CURBS UNDER HEAVY FIRE; At Congress Hearings Truman Is Said to Be Seeking Dictatorial Po... [PDF] WASHINGTON, May 18--The Administration's economic stabilization program underwent new and vehement attacks before Congressional committees today in an intensified drive for abolition of price control....View free preview May 19, 1951 - By JOHN D. MORRIS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.


WAGE BOARD VOTES 14% PACKERS' RISE; Says Breaking of 10% Ceiling for 220,000 Marks a Step in Develo... [PDF] WASHINGTON, May 18--The Wage Stabilization Board today approved a wage rise of 9 cents an hour for 220,000 meat packing workers. The action was a significant extension of the principle of cost-of-living escalators....View free preview May 19, 1951 - By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.



BOARD APPROVES RISE IN CHICAGO RAIL PAY [PDF] WASHINGTON, May 19 (AP)-- The Wage Stabilization Board approved today wage increases negotiated by railroad unions with the Chicago, North Shore Milwaukee Railroad and the Chicago, Aurora Elgin Railway Company....View free preview May 20, 1951 -


WAGE BOARD RUSHES SMALL PACKER CASES [PDF] WASHINGTON, May 21--Attempting to forestall strike threats by employes of independent meat packers, the Wage Stabilization Board has decided to have its staff act swiftly on some 150 applications for wage increases....View free preview May 22, 1951 - Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. - Article

WAGE POLICY ADRIFT [PDF] If there had been any doubt previously that the lid was off so far as wage increases were concerned, that doubt should be removed by the decision of the newly created Wage Stabilization Board in the case of the packing house workers....View free preview May 22, 1951 - Editorial


EASING OF FORMULA ON PAY RISES AHEAD; Wage Board to Begin Revision of Basic Policy on May 31-- Tand... [PDF] WASHINGTON, May 23--The Wage Stabilization Board decided today to begin revision of its basic policy on May 31....View free preview May 24, 1951 - Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


Air Co-Pilots' Pay Rise Is Backed; Board's Plan May Affect All Lines; Presidential Panel Rules on C... [PDF] WASHINGTON, May 25--A Presidential Emergency Board today recommended that co-pilots employed by American Airlines, Inc., receive a substantial and long-overdue wage increase and that the gap between their pay and that of first pilots, or captains, be narr...View free preview May 26, 1951 - Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. - Article

Pay Board Reverses Rule On Wage-Hour Law Rise [PDF] WASHINGTON, May 25--The Wage Stabilization Board, reversing an earlier ruling, decided today that wage increases made to comply with the Fair Labor Standards Act were not chargeable against the 10 per cent limit on wage rises. In fact, the wage and hour i...View free preview May 26, 1951 - Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. - Article


EXTENSION URGED IN ESCALATOR PLAN; Taylor Would Continue Such Pay Rises Even if They Pierce 10% Cei... [PDF] WASHINGTON, May 28 --Dr. George W. Taylor, chairman of the Wage Stabilization Board, today favored continued operation of the escalator clauses in wage contracts even if they pierced the 10 per cent ceiling for wage increases established by the board....View free preview May 29, 1951 - By LOUIS STARK Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


WAGE UNIT TO RULE ON PAY CONTROLS; Panel to Decide Whether Curbs Should Apply to Workers Where Prices Are Free More information. May 31, 1951, Thursday DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - Whether more than 10,000,000 workers in railroads, ship lines, public utilities, newspapers, motion pictures and other industries exempt from price control should be exempt from wage control will be decided soon by the Wage Stabilization Board.


JOHNSTON PROPOSES ESCALATOR WAGES; Would Limit Pay Increases to Cost-of-Living Changes, Plus Produc... [PDF] WASHINGTON, June 1--Eric Johnston, Economic Stabilization Administrator, has told the Wage Stabilization Board his idea of a basic policy is to limit general wage increases to changes in the cost of living, with a productivity allowance of 2 per cent a ye...View free preview June 2, 1951 - By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


WAGE BOARD GIVES PRODUCTIVITY RISE; Permits 4-Cent Auto Increase in Decision Pointing to New Policy... [PDF] WASHINGTON, June 6--The Wage Stabilization Board unanimously approved tonight productivity wage increases which meet the conditions and limitations of the General Motors agreement with the United Auto Workers, C.I.O....View free preview June 7, 1951 - By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.


13% PAY RISES SEEN AS POLICY WAVERS AFTER 3 KEY DENTS; Major Increases Now in Force Outside Framewo... [PDF] WASHINGTON, June 17--The Wage Stabilization Board, fighting a holding action against pressures for higher pay, is about to fall back to a new line....View free preview June 18, 1951 - By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


ROTHSCHILD IS NAMED SALARY UNIT COUNSEL [PDF] WASHINGTON, June 18--V. Henry Rothschild 2d, New York attorney and finance specialist, was named today as chief legal counsel of the Salary Stabilization Division....View free preview June 19, 1951 - Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. - Article



HOUSE GROUP VOTES TO LIMIT PAY BOARD; Asks New Panel With No Role in Disputes--Senators Favor Prese... [PDF] WASHINGTON, June 21--The House Labor subcommittee voted 12 to 3 today to abolish the Wage Stabilization Board and authorize a new board that would have virtually no authority in cases involving disputes....View free preview June 22, 1951 - By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES



WAGE BOARD IS WORKING TOWARD FLEXIBLE POLICY; Its General Rules Are Modified to Allow for Many Spec... [PDF] WASHINGTON, June 23--Since the Wage Stabilization Board was reorganized, after labor ended its walkout on April 30, it has striven to reach decisions by unanimity among its eighteen members--six each representing industry, labor and the public....View free preview June 24, 1951 - By LOUIS STARK Special o THE NEW YORK TIMES.


Panel Would End Pay Curbs In Price-Exempt Industries; WAGE UNIT FAVORS LIFTING SOME CURBS Shipping ... [PDF] A special panel appointed by the Wage Stabilization Board has decided to recommend exemption from wage control for more than 2,000,000 workers in industries exempt from price control....View free preview June 25, 1951 - By A. A. RASKIN - Front Page


PAY RISE WARNING GIVEN EMPLOYERS; Tax Deduction May Be Refused for Entire Payroll Unless W.S.B. App...  [PDF]

Employers who put above-ceiling wage increases into effect without getting Wage Stabilization Board approval face possible disallowance of their entire payrolls for income tax purposes, it became known yesterday....View free preview July 5, 1951 - Article


SALARY BOARD ISSUES ITS FIRST REGULATION [PDF] WASHINGTON, July 5--The Salary Stabilization Board issued Regulation No. 1 today incorporating the first ten regulations of the Wage Stabilization Board and setting forth the line of jurisdiction between the two boards....View free preview July 6, 1951 - Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.


WAGE BOARD NAMES 7 REGIONAL CHIEFS [PDF] WASHINGTON, July 6 (UP)-- The Wage Stabilization Board today announced the appointment of seven regional directors and said six more would be named within a few days....View free preview July 7, 1951 -


PAY BOARD APPROVES 'FRINGE' ITEMS SCALE [PDF] WASHINGTON, July 12--The Wage Stabilization Board voted a catch-up formula for certain "fringe" items today....View free preview July 13, 1951 - Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES



JOHNSTON DEMANDS CONFEREES RESTORE TEETH TO CONTROLS; Warns That Senate-House Bills Would Add Billi... [PDF] WASHINGTON, July 21--The Administration carried the fight for adequate economic controls today to the Senate-House conference committee assigned to iron out differences between the bill approved by the House of Representatives early this morning, 323 to 9...View free preview July 22, 1951 - By CLAYTON KNOWLES Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES



PAY BOARD SETS UP ENFORCEMENT BODY; Taylor Discloses Compliance Procedures--New Wage Formula Is Hel... [PDF] WASHINGTON, July 23--The Wage Stabilization Board announced today the creation of a National Enforcement Commission for dealing with violations of board regulations....View free preview July 24, 1951 - By LOUIS STARK Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES



WAGE BOARD EASES MERIT RISE POLICY; Simplifies Procedure to Allow for Increases Viewed as No Peril ... [PDF] WASHINGTON, July 30 The Wage Stabilization Board simplified today its policies governing wage adjustments for individual employes that may be made without specific board approval....View free preview July 31, 1951 - Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


NEW WAGE POLICY TIED TO LIVING COST DRAFTED BY BOARD; Plan Would Extend to Millions Negotiated Rise... [PDF] WASHINGTON, Aug. 3--A major change in policy under which all wage earners in the jurisdiction of the Wage Stabilization Board would be allowed to obtain cost-of-living increases voluntarily negotiated was proposed by the board today....View free preview August 4, 1951 - By LOUIS STARK Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES



PAY BOARD TO BACK 'DEFERRED' RISES; Wage Increases Granted Prior to Jan. 25 to Be Approved if Not U... [PDF] WASHINGTON, Aug. 10--The Wage Stabilization Board announced today it would approve "deferred increases" granted to employes before last Jan. 25, provided the increases would not have an unstabilizing effect....View free preview August 11, 1951 - Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


A.F.L. ACTS TO STOP WORKING WITH C.I,O.; UNITY HOPES END; Executive Council Votes for Break Which W... [PDF] WASHINGTON, Aug. 14--Organized labor's "general staff," formed in December to deal with problems of defense mobilization and wage-price control, faces early collapse....View free preview August 15, 1951 - By LOUIS STARK Special to The New York Times



WAGE RULES EASED IN LABOR SHORTAGE; Board to Permit Increases Needed to Draw Workers in 'Unusual Ca... [PDF] WASHINGTON, Aug. 16--The Wage Stabilization Board will permit above-ceiling wage increases to meet critical manpower needs where it is demonstrated that every other remedy has failed and the board believes that the exception will not lead to a general inc...View free preview August 17, 1951 - Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


JOHNSTON ALLOWS WAGE RISES OF 2% ADDED TO BASIC 10%; He Approves Supplementary Living-Costs Formula Linked to the U.S. Price Index CUTS ARE POSSIBLE LATER Policy Subject to Revision by March 1--Textile Increase of 7 % Pruned to 6 % Allows "Fair" Adjustments Options in Applying Policy JOHNSTON ALLOWS 2% ADDED PAY RISES 6 Per Cent Textile Rise August 18, 1951, Saturday By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, Aug. 17--Eric Johnston, Economic Stabilization Administrator, approved today the Wage Stabilization Board's new cost-of-living wage policy, but limited its application to the period until March 1.



WAGE PANEL SPLIT ON EXEMPT AREAS; Report to Stabilization Board, Covering 14,000,000 Persons, Finds...  [PDF]

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22--A six-man panel handed the Wage Stabilization Board a widely split report today on the question of what to do about wages in industries that are exempt from ceiling regulations of the Office of Price Stabilization....View free preview

August 23, 1951 - By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


SALARY INCREASES FOR MERIT, TENURE LIMITED BY BOARD; Forthcoming Regulation Puts Total of Such Rise... [PDF] WASHINGTON, Sept. 16--A regulation to be announced by the Salary Stabilization Board this week will place a 6 per cent ceiling on the total merit and lengthof-service increases that may be granted by an employer in a year....View free preview September 17, 1951 - By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. -


PAY RISES GRANTED TO EASE INEQUITIES; Wage Board to Consider Bids for Increases to Adjust Interplan... [PDF] WASHINGTON, Sept. 28--The Wage Stabilization Board announced an interplant inequity policy today under which the lowest-paying employers in an industry or area would be permitted to raise their wages to "stabilized levels" to correct proved inequities....View free preview September 29, 1951 - Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.


WAGE BOARD RULES IN FIRST DISPUTE; Proposes 18-Cent Hourly Rise at American Smelter Plant --Will He... [PDF] WASHINGTON, Oct. 19--The Wage Stabilization Board settled its first dispute case today by proposing pay increases averaging 18 cents an hour at the American Smelting, and Refining Company's smelter in Garfield, Utah....View free preview October 20, 1951 - Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


LABOR LOSING PART IN U.S. COUNCILS; Fails to Act After Hard-Won Battle--Duties to Unions Pre-empt Some Time More information. October 22, 1951, Monday By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. Page 15, 920 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, Oct. 21--Organized labor's status in the councils of Government, won after a bitter two-month fight last spring, is suffering a slight decline from disuse.


STEEL TO TEST WAGE STABILIZATION; Pattern for Industry Is Expected After A Sharp Clash Moderation i...  [PDF]

Government wage controls came under heavy union fire last week, with every indication the fire would get hotter until the showdown battle was fought, in the steel industry in the next sixty to ninety days....View free preview November 11, 1951 - By A.H. RASKINThe New York TimesThe New York Times


WAGE BOARD TO ACT ON INCENTIVE PLANS; New Policy Eases Curbs Fixed in January Controls Order-- Labo... [PDF] View free preview November 21, 1951 - Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


PRODUCTIVITY IS KEY TO WAGE ISSUE; Big Industries Differ On the Point Which W.S.B. Will Decide [PDF] Federal wage stabilizers are grappling with their thorniest problem--what to do about pay agreements that give workers a direct share in the fruits of increased industrial efficiency....View free preview November 25, 1951 - By A.H. RASKIN


AVERAGE STEEL PAY PUTAT $1.79 HOURLY; Wage Board to Use That Sum in Computing the Increase Permitte... [PDF] WASHINGTON, Nov. 28--The average plant worker in basic steel earns $1.79 an hour, exclusive of overtime premium pay and "fringe" benefits such as paid holidays, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today....View free preview November 29, 1951 - Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.


PUTNAM RULES OUT A STEEL PRICE RISE BASED ON PAY LIFT; Companies 'Bargaining With Their Own Money,'...  [PDF]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14--Steel companies will not be allowed to raise their prices to compensate for any wage increase they may grant in current wage negotiations, Roger L. Putnam, Economic Stabilization Administrator, said today....View free preview December 15, 1951 - Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.


WAGE BOARD SETS STEEL TALKS JAN. 7; Agency Bids Union, Companies Attend Parley--Will Name Panel to ... [PDF] WASHINGTON, Dec. 28--With a scheduled New Year's Eve strike of steel and aluminum workers canceled, the Wage Stabilization Board today began its efforts to bring about a settlement of the dispute....View free preview December 29, 1951 - Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES


STEEL UNION BOARD BACKS PEACE PLAN; Accepting Truman No-Strike Proposal Is Urged by Murray on Eve of Convention More information. January 3, 1952, Thursday By A. H. RASKIN Section: SPORTS, Page 32, 773 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Jan. 2 -- The international executive board of the United Steelworkers of America, C. I. O., voted unanimously tonight to accept President Truman's plan for preventing a national steel strike.


Wage Board Panel Formed More information. January 3, 1952, Thursday Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. Section: SPORTS, Page 32, 180 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 -- The Wage Stabilization Board completed assembling a special panel today to hear the wage dispute between the basic steel industry and the steel union. Hearings will begin in Washington next Monday.


STEEL UNION WARNS IT MAY YET STRIKE; 45-Day Delay No Surrender, Murray Asserts -- Truman 'Confident' of Settlement More information. January 5, 1952, Saturday By A. H. RASKINSpecial to THE NEW YORK TIMES. Section: FINANCIAL BUSINESS, Page 28, 908 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - ATLANTIC CITY, Jan. 4 -- The special convention of the United Steelworkers of America, C. I. O., voted today to postpone a national steel strike for forty-five days, but warned that the union was prepared to shut down the steel mills if the truce period ended without a satisfactory wage agreement.


BOTH SIDES PLEDGE STEEL PEACE HELP; Reply to Cooperation Appeal by Wage Stabilization Board Head as Hearings Open More information. January 8, 1952, Tuesday Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. Page 21, 475 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 -- Nathan P. Feinsinger, chairman of the Wage Stabilization Board, called today on labor and management in the steel industry to rise above "immediate self-interest" in working for a settlement of wage and other contract differences.


ENTITLED TO RISE, SAYS STEEL UNION; Murray Tells Pay Panel Curbs Would Not Be Upset -- Bars Wilson Role in Decision More information. January 11, 1952, Friday By A. H. RASKINSpecial to THE NEW YORK TIMES. Page 14, 724 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 -- Philip Murray's United Steelworkers of America, C. I. O., told a Wage Stabilization Board panel today that the union's whole wage "package," variously estimated at from 30 to 50 cents an hour, was entitled to approval under Federal pay controls.


PAY STABILIZERS GET ISSUE OF UNION SHOP More information. January 16, 1952, Wednesday Page 16, 276 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (UP) -- Walter P. Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers, C. I. O., today handed Federal wage stabilizers their first test on a vital labor issue -- the union shop.



WAGE BOARD TO SET PRODUCTIVITY RISES; Pay Increases to Be Allowed in Line With Endorsements of Truman and Advisers More information. January 17, 1952, Thursday By JOSEPH A. LOFTUSSpecial to THE NEW YORK TIMES. Page 16, 529 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON Jan. 16 -- Nathan P. Feinsinger, chairman of the Wage Stabilization Board, said without reservation today that wage increases based on productivity would be permitted as soon as the board could write a regulation.


WAGE BOARD NAMES PANEL; Six-Man Committee Will Weigh Health and Welfare Plans More information. January 17, 1952, Thursday Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. Page 13, 167 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- The Wage Stabilization Board announced today the appointment of a six-man committee consisting of two each from the public, industry and labor to act on petitions for approval of health and welfare plans.


STEEL PRICE PARLEY SET; U. S. to Discuss 'Adjustment' Order With Plants Jan. 29 More information. January 18, 1952, Friday Page 13, 174 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (AP) -The Government today invited the steel industry price advisory committee to a meeting Jan. 29 to discuss a proposed order under which the industry might apply for price adjustments.



Wage Board Is Accused More information. January 20, 1952, Sunday Page 45, 337 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - GARY, Ind., Jan. 19 -- (AP) Gary steel union officials accused the Wage Stabilization Board today of permitting a stall in their wage talks and declared they would strike Feb. 22 unless the dispute was settled.


REPUBLIC OPPOSES RISE IN STEEL PAY; Company Head Says Industry Will Fight Bid for Increase Without Price Changes More information. January 25, 1952, Friday Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. Page 11, 568 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - PITTSBURGH, Jan. 24 -- A leading steel producer served notice on the Wage Stabilization Board today that the steel industry would not go along with any Government recommendation for higher wages that failed to provide "an equivalent increase in steel prices."



STEEL IS HELD ABLE TO ABSORB PAY RISE; Putnam Asserts 'Considerable' Grant Is Possible Without Need to Increase Prices More information. January 26, 1952, Saturday Page 6, 767 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (UP) -- Roger L. Putnam, Economic Stabilization Administrator, said today that the steel industry could pay its workers a "considerable" wage increase without raising prices.



PAY CURB SUCCESS CLAIMED BY BOARD; Stabilizers Report Increases Held to World War II Pace -- Price Check Also Is Seen More information. January 27, 1952, Sunday Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. Page 61, 558 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 -- Adjusted average hourly earnings for production and related workers in manufacturing increased about 3.3 per cent in the nine-month period from Feb. 1 to Oct. 31, 1951, the Wage Stabilization Board said today.



PRICE GALLOP SEEN IF STEEL PAY RISES; Industry Declares Increase Is Unjustified -- Murray Replies Wage Envelopes Deny This More information. February 6, 1952, Wednesday By STANLEY LEVEY Page 15, 869 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - The steel industry turned a critical eye yesterday on the wage demands of the United Steelworkers of America, C. I. O., and said that they were costly, unjustified, unnecessary and inflationary.



SOUTH'S RUIN SEEN IN STEEL UNION BID; Industry Says Raising Wages to North's Rate Would Put Crushing Cost on Economy More information. February 7, 1952, Thursday Page 56, 719 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - The steel industry told a Wage Stabilization Board panel yesterday that the board would hamper the country's defense against atomic attack, undermine our foreign economic policy and introduce "totalitarianism" in the United States if it recommended that Southern steel workers get the same pay as Northern steel workers.



Compromise Is Seen On Keeping Controls; TRUMAN CONSULTS ON CONTROLS PLAN More information. February 9, 1952, Saturday By CHARLES E. EGANSpecial to THE NEW YORK TIMES. Page 1, 516 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 -Drafts of a message to be sent to Capitol Hill next week by President Truman with the Administration's proposals for renewing price and wage controls were circulated among the heads of defense agencies today to give executives an opportunity for last-minute suggestions.



UNION SHOP FOUGHT BY STEEL INDUSTRY; Spokesmen See Power Abuse if U. S. Compels Workers to Join Murray's Group More information. February 9, 1952, Saturday By A. H. RASKIN Page 7, 729 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - Steel industry spokesmen told a Wage Stabilization Board panel yesterday that it would be an abuse of Government power to compel of steel workers to join a union.



14C PAY RISE SEEN AS STEEL FORMULA; Wage Panel Ruling in Wright Case Made After Arguments Similar to Present Dispute 14C PAY RISE SEEN AS STEEL FORMULA More information. February 10, 1952, Sunday By A. H. RASKIN Page 1, 1408 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - A possible pattern for the Government's labor peace formula in steel was seen yesterday in the report of a special Wage Stabilization Board panel recommending wage increases averaging 14.4 cents an hour for 11,500 workers at two Wright Aeronautical plants in Wood-Ridge, N. J.



STEEL UNION CALLS WAGE POLICY BOARD; Unit to Decide on How Much Time to Give U. S. to Settle Dispute -- March Crisis Seen More information. February 14, 1952, Thursday By A. H. RASKIN Page 30, 783 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - The 170-man wage policy committee of the United Steelworkers of America, C. I. O., was instructed yesterday to meet in Pittsburgh next Thursday to decide how much time the union should give the Government to effect a peaceful settlement in the steel wage dispute.



MURRAY DECLARES STEEL SEEKS STRIKE; Says Industry Aims to Provoke Walkout to Get Price Rises -- Gets Reply of 'Poppycock' More information. February 16, 1952, Saturday By A. H. RASKIN Page 8, 744 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - Philip Murray, president of the United Steelworkers of America, C. I. O., accused the steel industry yesterday of seeking to provoke a strike to pry "completely unjustified" price increases out of the Government.



STEEL TALKS CLOSE ON PEACEFUL NOTE; Price Rise of $2.40 to $3 Held Likely to Follow Expected Pay Increase of 15 Cents More information. February 17, 1952, Sunday By STANLEY LEVEY Page 35, 597 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - A special panel of the Wage Stabilization Board completed hearings yesterday on the steel wage dispute and prepared to write a report that would serve as a basis for settlement.



STEEL UNION STRIKE IS AGAIN POSTPONED TO GIVE BOARD TIME; Murray's Group Sets 30-Day Extension in Hope Panel Will Devise Satisfactory Accord More information. February 22, 1952, Friday By A. H. RASKIN Page 1, 1036 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - PITTSBURGH, Feb. 21 -- The United Steelworkers of America, C. I. O., decided tonight to postpone a strike one month to give the Wage Stabilization Board time to work out a peaceful settlement of the union's pay dispute with the steel industry.



BILL ASKS INQUIRY INTO WAGE BOARD; Illinois Representative Charges It Plans to Back Union Shop in Defiance of Congress More information. February 23, 1952, Saturday Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. Page 6, 610 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 -- A Congressional investigation of the Wage Stabilization Board for a "flagrant disregard" of the intent of Congress on the union shop was demanded today by Representative Leo E. Allen, Republican of Illinois.



NATIONAL WAGE PATTERN IS BEING FORGED IN STEEL; Major Unions Are Preparing to Base Demands on the Decisions There More information. February 24, 1952, Sunday By A. H. RASKIN Section: review of the week editorials, Page E6, 1189 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - PITTSBURGH, Feb. 23 -- The 1952 wage pattern for millions of American workers will be fashioned in the next sixty days. A half-dozen major unions, with steel, coal and oil in the vanguard, expect to write new contracts in March and April.



WAGE BOARD BARS LIMIT ON PENSIONS; Also Exempts Profit Sharing From Ceiling -- Plans in Effect Before 1951 Not Affected More information. February 24, 1952, Sunday By The United Press Page 1, 645 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 -- The Wage Stabilization Board today exempted employe pension and profit-sharing plans from pay ceilings and set up liberal guideposts for writing new and amended plans.



FEAR OF NEW CRISIS DOGS STEEL TALKS; Wage Board Vexed by Issue of Pay Reopening -- Some Favor 6-Month Span More information. February 25, 1952, Monday By A. H. RASKIN Page 14, 509 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - How to keep a new steel labor crisis from developing in a few months is one of the problems with which the Wage Stabilization Board is wrestling in its efforts to ward off a national strike March 23.



STEEL ISSUES STUDIED; Wage Board Receives Report of Panel on Pay Dispute More information. March 1, 1952, Saturday Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.



2-YEAR EXTENSION OF CONTROLS URGED; Senate Group Hears Wilson -- Fleischmann and Martin Also Support Curbs More information. March 5, 1952, Wednesday Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. Page 24, 645 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, March 4 -- Charles E. Wilson, Defense Mobilization Director, called today for a two-year extension of price, wage and other economic controls needed to insure the nation's attainment of goals of military strength sought by the end of 1954.



CALLS STANDARD UNFAIR; Moreell Says Johnston Formula Is Impracticable for Steel More information. March 8, 1952, Saturday Section: business financial, Page 20, 304 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - PITTSBURGH, March 7 (AP) -- Admiral Ben Moreell, chairman of the board of Jones Laughlin Steel Corporation, today labeled the Eric Johnston standard for price ceilings when applied to steel as "unfair, impracticable and a breach of good faith by the Federal Government."



INLAND STEEL HEAD FIGHTS PRICE RISE; Rumored Increase of $3 a Ton Would Be 'Maneuver' for More Pay, Randall Asserts AID TO INFLATION IS SEEN Industry's Expansion Is Bringing Supply Up to Demand, the Executive Declares More information. March 8, 1952, Saturday Section: business financial, Page 20, 341 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - Taking cognizance of rumors that Government stabilization authorities are about to propose a $3-a-ton price increase in steel, Clarence R. Randall, president of the Inland Steel Company of Chicago, asserted yesterday that such action would be a "maneuver" to pave the way for a steel wage "by proposing a prior and insufficient price increase."



FOES OF UNION SHOP ASSAIL WAGE BODY; Steel Workers Assert Industry Uses Propaganda as Letters and Calls Bombard Board More information. March 9, 1952, Sunday Page 70, 649 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, March 8 (UP) -- Spokesmen for the United Steelworkers, C. I. O., accused the steel industry today of using "high-pressure propaganda" in the bitter labor-management fight over the union shop.



PRICE AGENCY OFFERS STEEL RISE FORMULA More information. March 12, 1952, Wednesday Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. Page 30, 268 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, March 11 -- The Office of Price Stabilization will hand to a steel industry committee tomorrow for its comments a proposed regulation for raising steel prices under the Capehart Amendment to the Defense Production Act.



U. S. MOVE TO DELAY STEEL STRIKE FAILS; Murray Refuses Assurances of New Stay -- Mills to Start Cooling Furnaces Thursday U. S. STEPS TO DELAY STEEL STRIKE FAIL More information. March 15, 1952, Saturday By JOSEPH A. LOFTUSSpecial to THE NEW YORK TIMES. Page 1, 1069 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, March 14--Government attempts to delay the start of a nation-wide steel strike failed today and, under present plans, the industry will start cooling furnaces on Thursday.



U. S. ACTS TO DELAY STEEL STRIKE DATE; Wage Body Asks Union to Put Off to April 4 Tie-Up Slated March 23 -- Peace Plan Near More information. March 16, 1952, Sunday By PAUL P. KENNEDY Page 1, 651 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, March 15 -- Philip Murray, president of the United Steelworkers and of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, was asked by the Wage Stabilization Board today to delay for at least two weeks the start of a threatened country-wide steel strike scheduled to begin next Sunday at midnight.



STEEL UNION HOLDS TO STRIKE THREAT; Murray Tells Wage Board That Policy Group Will Consider on Thursday Delaying Tie-Up More information. March 17, 1952, Monday By A. H. RASKIN Page 1, 1044 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - Philip Murray, president of the United Steelworkers of America, C. I. O., decided yesterday to keep the Government and the steel industry guessing on whether the union would go along with Federal proposals for a sixteen-day delay in its strike plans.



UNION SHOP FINDING FOR STEEL DOUBTED; Wage Panel's Public Members, Who Hold Balance of Power, Favor Bargaining on Issue More information. March 18, 1952, Tuesday By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Page 1, 941 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, March 17 -- The Wage Stabilization Board is almost certain to avoid a strong recommendation on the union shop issue in the steel dispute at this time in the interest of giving labor and management another opportunity to bargain it out.



WAGE BOARD UNIT FOR 13.7C PAY RISE FOR STEEL PEACE; Industry Members Propose This as 'Package' Plan, Public Group Calls It Too Low 19 OR 20C IS HELD LIKELY Stabilization Agency to Issue Its Report Tomorrow Before Union Policy Makers Act 13.7c Steel 'Package' Is Proposed By Wage Board Industry Members More information. March 19, 1952, Wednesday By JOSEPH A. LOFTUSSpecial to THE NEW YORK TIMES. Page 1, 895 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Industry members of the Wage Stabilization Board proposed today that the board recommend a "package" settlement of 13.7 cents an hour in the steel dispute. They said public members told them that was too low.



ARNALL FORESEES 2 RISES FOR STEEL; Says One Increase Will Come Under Capehart Plan, and 2d Perhaps on 'Fair' Formula More information. March 20, 1952, Thursday Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. Page 30, 647 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, March 19 -- Ellis G. Arnall, Director of Price Stabilization, told the Senate Banking Committee today that the steel companies would receive, under present policies, one price increase under the Capehart Amendment and possibly another under the "fair and equitable" formula, if needed, after wage rises to permit industry to earn 85 per cent of its average of the three best of the years 1946, 1947, 1948 and 1949.



WAGE BOARD GROUP PROPOSES 20C RISE TO STEEL WORKERS; Public Members Suggest Plan as Parleys Run Into Night in Effort to Avert Strike PRICE INCREASE IS SLATED Arnall Says That Companies May Get Two -- Union to Act Today on Walkout Delay Wage Board Public Unit Proposes 20-Cent Rise for Steel Workers More information. March 20, 1952, Thursday By JOSEPH A. LOFTUSSpecial to THE NEW YORK TIMES. Page 1, 783 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, March 19 -- Public members of the Wage Stabilization Board proposed today a settlement of the steel dispute on terms reported to be worth about 20 cents an hour.



3 FACTIONS WEIGH W. S. B. AFTER YEAR; Industry, Labor, Government Reach Differing Evaluations -- Wages Top Price Rises More information. March 20, 1952, Thursday By A. H. RASKIN Page 30, 1358 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - With the Federal wage control program facing its crucial test in steel, industry, labor and Government officials studied the record of the Wage Stabilization Board yesterday and arrived at conflicting estimates of its success in its first fourteen months of activity.



WAGE BOARD VOTES 18.8C RISE IN STEEL AS INDUSTRY BALKS; Public, Labor Members Join to Approve a Pay Increase and 'Fringe' Benefits UNION POSTPONES STRIKE Bargaining to Resume Monday -- Producers Hint at Drive for a Price Advance VICTIM OF FATIGUE BOARD VOTES 18.8C AS STEEL PACKAGE More information. March 21, 1952, Friday By JOSEPH A. LOFTUSSpecial to THE NEW YORK TIMES. Page 1, 2050 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, March 20 -- The Wage Stabilization Board recommended tonight that the steel industry settle its wage disputes on the basis of a "package" increase estimated by public members at 18.8 cents an hour for 1952.



W. S. B. OFFICE HERE IS TIRED OF PICKETS More information. March 21, 1952, Friday Page 8, 219 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - Tired of picket lines and mass delegations seeking quick approval of wage agreements, the Regional Wage Stabilization Board served notice yesterday that it would not yield to "pressure tactics" in carrying on its activities.



HIGHER STEEL PRICE SOUGHT AS INDUSTRY ASSAILS WAGE PLAN; Wilson and Putnam Hear Case for Advance to Meet Cost of 18.8-Cent 'Package' PUBLIC PERIL DISCERNED Companies Fear Billion-Dollar Expense Would 'Wreck' the Stabilization Program INDUSTRY ASSAILS STEEL WAGE PLAN More information. March 22, 1952, Saturday By STANLEY LEVEY Page 1, 1201 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - The steel industry denounced yesterday the Wage Stabilization Board's proposal for an 18.8-cent wage and benefit "package" for steel workers and then met with Charles E. Wilson, Director of Defense Mobilization, to discuss higher prices.



HIGHER STEEL PRICE SOUGHT AS INDUSTRY ASSAILS WAGE PLAN; Wilson and Putnam Hear Case for Advance to Meet Cost of 18.8-Cent 'Package' PUBLIC PERIL DISCERNED Companies Fear Billion-Dollar Expense Would 'Wreck' the Stabilization Program INDUSTRY ASSAILS STEEL WAGE PLAN More information. March 22, 1952, Saturday By STANLEY LEVEY Page 1, 1201 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - The steel industry denounced yesterday the Wage Stabilization Board's proposal for an 18.8-cent wage and benefit "package" for steel workers and then met with Charles E. Wilson, Director of Defense Mobilization, to discuss higher prices.



STEEL CASE HIGHLIGHTS WAGE BOARD'S DILEMMA; Long Hearings Fail as a Substitute For Real Collective Bargaining More information. March 23, 1952, Sunday By A. H. RASKIN Section: REVIEW OF THE WEEK EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE WEEK-END CABLES EDITORIALS SPECIAL ARTICLES-SCIENCE LETTERS-EDUCATION, Page E10, 1484 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - The strength and the weaknesses of the Wage Stabilization Board were equally evident last week in the tug-of-war that led to the board's formula for averting a steel shrike and in the haggling over steel prices that followed it.



BARGAINING TO RESUME; Steel Union and Individual Companies Meet This Week More information. March 23, 1952, Sunday By STANLEY LEVEY Page 52, 440 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - The steel industry and the United Steelworkers, C. I. O., will resume negotiations this week on an individual company basis in an ef fort to reach agreement before the union's strike deadline on April 8.



WILSON WEIGHING STEEL PRICE RISES; Administration Now Preparing to Alter Profit Rules, Gear Charge to Wage Gains More information. March 23, 1952, Sunday By CHARLES E. EGAN Page 52, 820 words DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH - WASHINGTON, March 22 -- The Administration is prepared to revise industry earnings standards set up more than a year ago if such a step is needed to allow steel producers compensatory price advances in the wake of wage increases recommended by the Wage Stabilization Board.































































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