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...Hard-shelled Joe Ryan's inter-union wars threatened another serious strike before the week was out. His union served an ultimatum demanding jurisdiction over the contract loading of all railroad freight for lighterage about New York Harbor. The Brotherhood of Railway & Steamship Clerks which had controlled part of this work promptly countered with a set of demands upon the railroads, threatened a strike of 25,000 freight and express handlers, ticket sellers and railway station employes that would tie up railroad service in the whole New York City area. A serious strike depriving 7,000,000 people...
...books. All Quiet on the Western Front and The Road Back; it remains the thesis of his third. To those who have forgotten the War or to those who never knew it, Remarque's preoccupation with this one theme may seem morbid or adolescent. It is not the brotherhood of man that moves his pen but the brotherhood of comrades-in-arms (Kriegskameradschaft). Readers of Three Comrades thought they could detect an almost wistful note of old-soldierism in Remarque's latest. Though he never refers to the War as the good old days, his heroes have become...
...Northwest, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners was scrambling for members everywhere from lumber camps to furniture factories. Out to enlist every Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. employe, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers adopted a system of Class B memberships for non-members of its craft. Machinists, streetcar and other craft unions were spreading out on the same lines, working up to a first-rate Federation family quarrel. The president of C. I. O.'s United Electrical & Radio Workers, also out to organize Westinghouse, cheerfully noted that to achieve its aim his A. F. of L. rival would have...
Died. William W. ("Wild Bill") Durbin, 71, prestidigitating Register of the U. S. Treasury, first chairman of William Jennings Bryan's campaign for the Presidency in 1896; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Kenton, Ohio. He founded the International Brotherhood of Magicians, built an elaborate "Egyptian theatre" at Kenton in which to entertain his friends...
Contracting-Day before his policy raids Prosecutor Dewey made his first public move, after a 13-month investigation, against an electrical contracting racket. Subpoenaed were the books of city power companies, of three trade associations, private contractors, and of a local of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (an A. F. of L. affiliate). A Dewey aide charged that the leaders of the union had, by violence aided a monopoly of electrical contracting which cost New York citizens $10,000,000 per year. Baking. Two days later Mr. Dewey closed in, after more than a year of sleuthing, on a baking...