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Commenting on the action, Jeremiah Downey, Chairman of the Committee on Finance for Plan E, stated last night that the petition was a "desperate effort on the part of the politicians to keep themselves in power." Dean Landis himself was out of town and could not be reached...
...days ago a strike called by the C.I.O. United Automobile Workers' Aircraft Division union closed the large Vultee Aircraft Corporation plant at Downey, Cal. Cause of the strike was the refusal of the Vultee Co. to grant wage increases to approximately 3000 men whose basic wage was 50 cents an hour. The union claimed that $20 a week was not enough for a man to support a family decently, and asked that the sunken wage floor in the Vultee plant be raised to 75 cents an hour. With $84,000,000 in profitable foreign and domestic orders on its books...
...strike walked the 3,000 production workers of Vultee Aircraft at Downey, Calif. Work on a whacking backlog of $84,000,000 (including orders for $50,000,000 worth of vitally needed Army training planes) was stopped. Left in the factory hangar were 17 completed BT-13 Army planes. On the assembly line were 20 more that would have been finished by week's end. To Downey rushed War Department, National Defense Commission and Labor Department officials to confer with C. I. O. men and Vultee officials about the union's basic demand: an increase in minimum wages...
Plans for the new section were developed in close consultation with Walter F. Downey, Massachusetts Commissioner of Education, and with the Commissioners of Education of the other New England states, as well as other local school authorities...
Endorsing the new program, Commissioner Downey said today, "The communities in this section of the country the taxpayers, town officials, and the school executives,--greatly need the help which such a plan will afford at the present time. During this period when educational needs and tax budgets are being thoroughly weighed by many different groups it is essential that clear judgments be formed, with due regard to educational standards, a proper return for each tax dollar spent and vigilant care of the present-day needs of the children in our schools...