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Svelte, charming Correspondent Eve Curie (Journey Among Warriors) was sworn in as a 30?-a-day private in the Corps des Volontaires Françaises (Fighting French WACs). She waited in Manhattan for transportation to her three-month basic training in England...
John Lewis had failed to get his miners their $2-a-day raise (though he may still get it under his portal-to-portal scheme). But he had 1) re-established himself as labor's most potent, if most hated leader; 2) successfully flouted WLB, which he hates; 3) harassed and embarrassed Franklin Roosevelt, whom he also hates...
Harold Ickes made progress, despite the second coal strike in a month. John Lewis scaled his $2-a-day raise down to a $1.50; some operators were offering $1. This was as close together as the two groups had yet come...
Dollar-a-year men get $10 subsistence allowance for every day spent in Washington or on official trips, plus first-class travel allowances (parlor car or lower berth). At that, they are a bargain. Most of them spend about $20 a day to live with their wives in crowded Washington. When they go home for weekends, they pay their own expenses and lose their $10-a-day allowance. During all trips away from the capital they also have to go on paying hotel rent-or find their room taken by others when they return...
...Franklin Roosevelt was asked at his press conference if the miners could strike. The President said he had been in Government a long time and did not know of an instance where Government workers struck against their Government. Same day some 1,400 miners did strike, protesting $1-a-day fines for their previous walkouts, were soon joined by 1,600 more...