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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sign came, strangely enough, from John Lewis' soft-coal miners, who had gotten the best contract in their history under the shadow of the new law. They were now digging nearly as much coal in a 40-hour week (12.1 million tons) as they had before in 54 hours (12.5 million). Another note of cooperation came from A.F.L.'s David Dubinsky. who ignored the tactics of other A.F.L. and C.I.O. strategists and advised his International Ladies' Garment Workers locals to continue writing no-strike clauses into their contracts...
Three weeks ago Autry signed a new contract to star in Madison Square Garden's rodeo, which annually draws one of New York's biggest gates. He will get a salary of $1,500 a day for a 33-day run as a performer, a handsome share of the profits as owner of 25% of the rodeo's stock. Last fortnight he bought a half interest in Santa Monica's brand-new radio station KOWL for $80,000 cash. Last week, on location in Arizona, he started work on the third of eight independent Gene Autry...
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...
Detroit was already feeling the pinch of another dispute over the issue of a "no penalty" contract. A two-week strike of 7,000 workers at Detroit's Murray Corp., which supplies body panels, frames and other parts, had already forced Ford to lay off 26,800 workers. The Murray strike had also forced Studebaker (at South Bend, Ind.) to lay off 10,000; the stoppage was backing up into other auto plants...
...workers, found that the lessons had sunk in. Pickets greeted him with a sign on which they too quoted freely from the Bible: "Masters, give unto your workers that which is just and equal." After another look at his Bible, Beltram rehired his workers, signed a union contract...