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...hard bargain: it can break its lease without obligation in the event of labor trouble. Mike Demech, youthful (36), politically-minded (Republican) head of U.A.W.'s Local 18, went along, promptly signed a contract with Murray. In return, Murray will spend $1,500,000 on reconversion, eventually employ 4,000, boost Scranton's income by $8,000,000 a year. For a ghost town, Scranton looked like a pretty lively ghost...
Even before Governor Thomas E. Dewey signed New York State's fair-employ ment-practices bill last March (to outlaw race discrimination in jobs), the good, grey New York Times had its eye out for a Negro reporter. Last week it had found one and was breaking...
...forecasts, warned Small, were made on the assumption that "production would not be seriously interrupted by external causes." Such "external causes" as strikes and price squabbles had already hit auto production so hard that it may not reach its peak until late 1946. Then, Small estimates that it will employ 569,000 workers (twice the 1939 level...
...Prop. Westinghouse Electric Corp. announced that it will employ nearly 2,000 workers, in its $10 million plant in Philadelphia, making $10-$15 million worth a year of gas turbine aircraft engines, jet and propeller driven, mainly for the armed services. Said Spokesman George H. Woodward: "Such engines will rapidly become dominant in the high-powered and high-speed airplane fields, both military and commercial...
...hour, Johnson said: not high enough; the U.S. can now "pay higher wages and sell at lower costs. This equation needs no proof beyond the record of the past 50 years, . . . We can honestly say, at least in our country, that man does not have the right to employ his fellow man unless he can pay a subsistence wage [and] the average American workman cannot keep body & soul together on less than $30 a week anywhere...