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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unofficial sources revealed late late night the decision of the State Labor Relations sub-committee to determine once and for all the legality of the American Federation of Labor's contract with the University whereby Locals 186 and 112 are given sole bargaining rights...
...contract, which presupposed a 51 percent A. F. of L. majority, in the dining halls and kitchens, was signed by the University without any attempt being made to prove the existence of this majority. The majority was not certified, as is usually the case, by the State Labor Relations Commission, nor was any general vote held among the employees...
...cause of this portentous prospect was a dispute as to whether an expired contract guaranteeing no wage reductions should be extended for three months or for one year as the union demanded. Early this week Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, who knows how to remain calm under labor fire, deposited the contending parties in separate hotel rooms and, after seven consecutive hours of shuttling back & forth, the union agreed to call off the "revolution" in exchange for a four-month extension...
...years ago he formed a panda-hunting partnership with William H. Harkness Jr., but the latter died just before they were to start. Later Mrs Harkness tried in vain to get him to accompany her on her first expedition into the wilds of Tibet. Since he has a contract with the London Zoo, two of his pandas are likely to go there, while he will probably sell the others in the U. S. Chicago's zookeepers were exultant last week over the possibility of getting a male cub for Mei-Mei. Exclaimed Assistant Director Robert Bean: "Oh, Boy! Wonderful...
...Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air. Its hurdles are high and its winners are likely to be young singers of more than average ability. Last week Metropolitan General Manager Edward Johnson, having listened with his fellow judges to 707 auditions, announced the winners for 1937-38. Presented with a contract, $1,000 and a silver plaque apiece were handsome, smooth-faced Brooklyn Tenor John Carter (Nelson Eddy's successor on the Chase & Sanborn Hour) and slick-haired, muscular Bronx Baritone Leonard Warren. Twenty-five-year-old Tenor Carter studied to be a civil engineer, gave up engineering to study...