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...consumed by fire from heaven. Last week, in front of Kansas City's strikebound Elko Photo Products Co., a 24-year-old A.F.L. cabdriver named Harvey Warner paid the penalty for modern blasphemy. Arm in arm with striking A.F.L. women workers, Penitent Warner paraded his shame for two eight-hour shifts, draped in an accusing sign: "I am a heel. I crossed a picket line...
Last week he had an extraordinary session with his Administration leaders in Congress. The price bill they brought him -after the fizzle of Senator "Pappy" O'Daniel's eight-hour filibuster-was, by their own admission, a dud but they agreed: it was the best that could be had. At least, it saved rent controls...
...seamen hailed this as a victory, with reason. As the ships sailed again, the crews were on an eight-hour instead of a 12-hour day, which had been one of the chief bones of contention...
...National Maritime Union's Joe Curran and Harry Bridges of the International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union, had made its wants plain. In the main, they were: 1) a 22?-an-hour raise for the lowest ratings, and graduated raises up to 35? for longshoremen and skilled ratings-an average hike of 30%; 2) a 40-hour week and an eight-hour day; 3) $1.25 to $1.75 an hour in overtime pay; 4) retroactivity to Oct. 1, 1945. When the operators winced, the left-of-left C.M.U. pointed out that its able and ordinary seamen were working...
...sharpness of the struggle was reflected in negotiations between the union and the Dominion Marine Association. At first, management accepted the eight-hour day in principle, provided the union made no other wage demands. But as the strike continued, the parties drew apart. Angrily the owners charged the union with breach of its contract. A four-day truce, tentatively accepted by the negotiators, was flatly spurned by the two biggest operators...