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In addition to racketeering, jurisdictional fights have resulted in oppressive restraints on U.S. industry. Building-trade unions have blocked improved methods of construction. Hod carriers and operating engineers have prevented the use of ready-mixed concrete and mechanical truck mixers. Carpenters have fought the introduction of prefabricated parts. Such obstructions...
Also in Chicago is fat-faced Max Caldwell. From a lowly start as a waiter-bouncer and an unsuccessful organizer of hat-check girls and nightclub entertainers, Mr. Caldwell bounced into the food-store field, where his take in dues and initiation fees was said to be terrific.
The National Defense Mediation Board stepped into the dispute and recommended "maintenance of membership" as a compromise. This would require present and future voluntary members of the union to keep in good union standing as a condition of employment; the company would deduct union dues from wages; but no one...
On its way to becoming the biggest union in the U.S., last week U.A.W. was fairly busting its pants. In two years its dues-paying membership had tripled, was around half a million. Its bank account had swollen 650% to a fat $439,663. Holding its sixth convention, in Buffalo...
But the Mayor flatly refused to renew the contracts. He contended: 1) that the city could not legally sign a contract that permitted collective bargaining;* 2) that, although the city would continue to confer with union leaders (or anyone else), it most decidedly would not require workers to join the...