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...partly over a $1-a-day wage boost), the Die Casting local is fighting counter-organization drives by the powerful Aluminum Workers of America (which already controls nine Alcoa plants), and John L. Lewis' District 50 division of the United Mine Workers (which controls Alcoa's Buffalo plant). Both would like to get a pipeline into Cheyfitz' fat 7,000-man dues pot. Thus the Die Casters' "no-strike" edict was partly prompted by a desire to keep alive and whole...
...Great Lakes tankers have hauled oil west from pipeline heads at Toledo instead of to Buffalo for connection with Erie Canal barges. Fully utilized, the capacity of the Canal could be stepped up to 150,000 barrels daily from its present 50,000-barrel trickle. At this rate, from last May to the close of navigation this winter the East would have gained 20-odd million barrels...
...Buffalo-to-Philadelphia Keystone Pipe Line has lain idle since spring for lack of oil at the lakehead. Lost to the East is the line's minimum 16,000-barrel daily capacity...
...Next day he shouted that Senator Mead was not even a New Dealer-because Mead opposed Franklin Roosevelt's St. Lawrence River power and seaway project. (Jim Mead, resident of Buffalo, had strung along with Buffalo businessmen on this...
...backstop for the world-champion New York Yankees while Bill Dickey nursed a bad shoulder, Rosar was behind baseball's No. 1 plate-with $5,000 of World Series swag practically in his mitt. But Buddy, a law-abiding boy, had always wanted to be a cop in Buffalo, N.Y., his hometown. Last fortnight, on the eve of a doubleheader with the Chicago White Sox, Buddy Rosar shuffled off to Buffalo, where he took examinations for the police force (and where, also, his wife was about to have a baby...