Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor's offensive against the Taft-Hartley Act hit Detroit. John L. Lewis had won one battle with a coal contract which had laid a few detours around the new law (TIME, July 21). Last week the C.I.O.'s lusty, restive United Automobile Workers opened up on the Ford Motor Co. U.A.W. made Ford a test case in a fight to get unions out from under any responsibility for wildcat strikes. U.A.W. wanted a clause in its contract specifically releasing the union from the law's provisions that unions may be held financially responsible in court actions...
...third of Rumania's oil (expropriation of British and U.S. interests would complete Soviet control), 90% of her coal, a large portion of her gold, metal, coke, chemicals, and part of her banking...
Maiming Monopoly. Through its threefold control, the Soviet Union was taking from eastern Europe not only manufactured goods that Russia desperately needed, but also products of which it had an abundance. Last year, the Soviet Union took most of Poland's exportable coal (15 million tons), all of Rumania's exportable timber (203,000 tons), all of Bulgaria's exportable tobacco (35,000 tons...
Drastic increase of Ruhr coal and steel production was the indispensable first step to make the Marshall plan for western Europe a working reality. But there were three snags dead ahead: French fear of a revived Germany, lack of capital for Ruhr reconstruction, the British Labor Government's insistence on nationalization, which the U.S. maintains should be deferred. Last week a little progress was reported in clearing these blocks...
...French Communists were tirelessly playing on French fear of a strong Germany. But Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, bolstered by a recent vote of confidence, was reportedly willing to discuss a U.S. proposal for upping Ruhr coal and steel production under a plan of internationalized management. For Bidault, this was political daring; for France, a long step toward agreement. Nevertheless, all the Western nations had was still only a basis for further talk...