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Orderly little Uruguay put a new wrinkle in Government-labor relations. Last week the potent General Workers Union (100,000 dues payers) staged a one-day general strike, ostensibly in protest against the rising cost of living (up 25% in a year). Real reason: the Government had long wanted to...
Once, in the midst of his crowded week, the President took time to fulfill a routine political obligation. He wrote to James M. Pendergast, of Kansas City: "Dear Jim, I am enclosing a check for $6 in payment of my Jackson Democratic Club dues. I hope the outfit is still...
* The "outfit" to which the President paid his dues was once the notorious and corrupt machine of old Boss Tom Pendergast; James M. Pendergast is Tom's nephew and political heir.
Therefore, said Justice Rand, all 9,500 Ford employes would have to pay the basic union dues of $1 a month, whether they belonged or not. The company would have to collect the money by checkoff and turn it over to the union.
But this week the Old Lion followed the A.F. of L. council to the golden sands of Miami on important business. Ahead of him he had sent a check for $9,000, representing January dues for his 600,000 United Mine Workers. After a decade of wandering, first along the...