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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talks wore on, with the Big Steel negotiators still at loggerheads, the biggest hope for a break appeared this week in an unexpected quarter. In Detroit, the Ford Motor Co. announced that it had offered the auto workers' Walter Reuther a company-paid pension plan in line with the recommendations of the steel board. Ford cautiously reported real progress, and Henry Ford II made plans to leave this week for Europe despite Reuther's peremptory announcement that he was issuing a strike notice, effective Sept. 29. If autos settled, there was still a good chance that steel would...
...steelworkers' President Phil Murray was busy at the negotiating table, but C.I.O. President Phil Murray had other troubles on his mind. For months Murray had been threatening stern measures against rebellious unions like the Communist-wired United Electrical Workers. Last week U.E., the C.I.O.'s biggest left-wing union, beat the C.I.O. chief to the punch. At its stormy 14th annual convention in Cleveland, the U.E.'s leadership made all but the final motions of breaking off from C.I.O. and forming a third association of U.S. labor unions, which would be Communist-controlled...
...conventions, the C.I.O.'s slim little Secretary-Treasurer James B. Carey moved into the convention hall with a slate of right-wing candidates and a do-or-die campaign to unseat the Reds and bring U.E. back into the C.I.O. parlor. But, although he had collected the biggest bloc of votes since the Communists bounced him out of the U.E. presidency eight years ago, Jim Carey's words were still louder than his deeds. With mounting rage he stormed against the well-laid plans of the left-winger's President Albert Fitzgerald...
...Biggest of the committees, the Social Service Committee, will be seeking to improve its work in 43 local settlement houses and boys' clubs. Activities there range from basketball, wrestling, and carpentry to debating, dramatics, and science. Co-chairmen John c. Pittenger '51 and Jed Dreifus '50 hope to supply the settlement houses with well over 200 men this year...
Outside on the mud splattered field, the varsity practiced its offensive in a live scrimmage against the biggest and the toughest looking bunch of freshmen this writer has ever seen. When it took the role of defender, the varsity's opposition was Ben McCabe's junior varsity...