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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frills as an expense account turned in by the President's ten-man junket to study European marketing co operatives. More recently Mr. Elliott refused to O. K. expenditures for AAA's scheme to pay growers $10 a bale for cotton surrendered for loans, termed a Navy contract with Cleveland's Wellman Engineering Co. "illegal," watched complacently from the sidelines as three of his accountants last November filled the TV A investigating committee with unflattering accounts of TVA accounting practices...
...Clothing Workers, and took over the U. T. W. administration, its almost empty treasury, its debts and its 80,000 members, but left the union in theoretical existence as a committee affiliate. Along with other U. T. W. officers who bolted A. F. of L., Francis Gorman signed the contract which supposedly validated all this, and himself joined the new committee's advisory council...
...Gorman's home town of Providence, R. I. Eleven rebellious locals were expelled by T. W. O. C., which sued to take over their funds. To Sidney Hillman's surprise and discomfort, Superior Court Judge Charles A. Walsh held last month that the contract whereby U. T. W. officers signed away their union was invalid, because the members did not have a chance to vote...
Since November 1937, the union has had a contract with Mergenthaler's Brooklyn plant. Last month it called a strike to resist a 10% wage cut for 1,600 employes...
...present infirmary, however, is the startling fact that it does not contain observation wards. If no private rooms are available, students with undiagnosed ailments are put into a ward until their illness is diagnosed, and thus it is possible, though there are no traceable cases to date, to contract a complicating disease while trying to cure the original illness. On some occasions it is conceivable that a variety of contagious diseases might be found in one "observation" ward. On the basis of these and other facts, it seems that stillman needs such a thorough overhauling that the best and certainly...