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...Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., at Kearny, N. J., which the Navy seized when management refused a National Defense Mediation Board's recommendation that the company grant a shipyard workers' union a "maintenance of membership" contract (TIME, Aug. 18). The plant was temporarily operating last week under the Board's original proposal. For a Canadian answer to the defense strike problem...
...Shipbuilding case. Its justification: the other 38 shipbuilding firms on the West Coast had already agreed to the closed shop provision of an OPM master contract. In every instance, except one, industrialist members of the panel sitting on the case were in full accord. The exception: Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock...
...Navy took over the strike-shut Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. at Kearny, N.J. this week-as the Army took over the strike-shut North American Aviation plant on the West Coast in June. But there were two big differences. This time it was labor that cheered while management just abdicated. And this time it looked as though the Government might have to run the plant for the duration...
...Still strike-shut were the vast Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. yards at Kearny, N.J. (TIME, Aug. 18). Blame for the tie-up was placed squarely on management by the National Defense Mediation Board when Federal rejected the Board's recommendation for a settlement. From the Administration came an ultimatum: accept the Board's finding or else-the Navy would step in, become boss...
...which were armed under the armistice clause permitting French defense of the French Empire, had brought about 3,000 more men, all of whom would be a long time forgiving the British for the Battle of Oran. The new battleship Richelieu which the British crippled last July was in drydock at Dakar, but there was nothing wrong with her 15-inch guns...