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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cigar-fogged suite in Washington's Shoreham Hotel, negotiators for the nation's soft-coal operators drooped dejectedly. For a weary month they had failed to lure labor's one-man theater into writ-fag a new contract for his United Mine Workers. Now the nation was living on stored coal. And now, because his only specific demand (for a miners' health & welfare fund) had been turned down, Lewis was about to halt even the pretense of negotiation. Balefully he intoned...
...things had happened in the 16 months since James Caesar Petrillo last negotiated a big union contract. Congress had sent the President a bill calculated to curb his "coercive practices" in radio. Walter Reuther, John L. Lewis and other labor leaders had stolen his tricks or invented new ones. Were others taking James Caesar's place? Did the booing bother him? Last week in Manhattan, representatives of eight major motion-picture studios got the answer: Petrillo was improving all the time...
...demands were clear and simple. He merely wanted studios to give musicians a 100% salary increase, thus guaranteeing an annual salary of $10,400 for a ten-hour week. He also wanted them to hire 720 musicians instead of the 235 regularly employed under the terms of his old contract. If a sound track was transferred from 35 mm. film to 16 mm. film, the musicians were to be paid all over again...
...entirely by December. More impor tant, the $17 billion total expenditure was 31% less than last year's, and 91% of it would be paid from revenue. The next budget might be even better, for more than 40% of this one goes to defense supplies, demobilization gratuities, war contract terminations and other non-recurring expenses...
Treatment by University doctors or, if necessary, in one of the local hospitals associated with the Medical School has been made possible in accordance with a contract recently signed by the University and the Veterans Administration...