Word: dykstra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...investigation, had stepped in with recommendations for settling the Puget Sound C.I.O. loggers' strike. Similar contract terms had already been accepted by nonstriking C.I.O. loggers in the Columbia River district. But the answer of O. M. ("Mickey") Orton, strike leader, was a violent denunciation of Board Chairman Clarence Dykstra and his terms as an "all-out, labor-busting and strikebreaking device." Philip Murray, in a cold rage, called Orton's statement "a most reprehensible lying defamation...
Board Member Roger Dearborn Lapham, of American-Hawaiian Steamship Co., was the color of parchment; Chair man Clarence Dykstra had just gotten over a ten-day siege of sickness. The disease they were all suffering from was simply fatigue and overwork...
...help. Suggestions from Davis were that the Board be given the power to pick its own cases, that the Government quit giving defense contracts to manufacturers who have no collective bargaining agreements with their employes. Other suggestions: enlarge the Board, or create regional boards and let the overworked Dykstra Board function as a final supreme court in labor squabbles...
Unlike the Draft Act of 1917, the present Selective Training and Service Act provides for those who conscientiously object without regard to any religious sect or organization. According to a memorandum by President Roosevelt sent to Dr. Clarence A. Dykstra, national director of selective service, the basis of deferment from combatant military and service is to be not only "religious training" but also "belief...
Disorder in Washington. The outbreak caught the Administration unawares, there by adding unnecessarily to the apparent confusion. Earlier in the week, the new Dykstra Mediation Board (TIME, March 31) had held a brief preliminary meeting, had heard hopeful words from its chair man ("We shall ... try to appeal to the sound sense and the good will of all true Americans") and - adjourned. The Mediation Board could not deal with any strike until Madam Secretary Perkins gave the word ; and there was no word from Madam Perkins. Labor's man on OPM, Sidney Hillman, was Florida-bound, sick after...