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...dress speech repeating his charges in more vitriolic terms. Cried he: "Daily these publishers rub at the morale of the American people. Daily they sow suspicion. Daily they preach that we are a nation of fools, led by rascals into a hopeless struggle. Daily they wear at the moral fiber of the people, softening it, rotting it, preparing us for defeat...
...doomed? American Can Co. last week got ready to produce a so-called fiber ersatz for the metal cans of which this company has hitherto been No. 1 U.S. manufacturer...
Customers, who have already begun to buy paint and motor oil in paper containers, will not be surprised to learn that the fiber can is also essentially a paper can. Some fiber cans still have metal tops and bottoms...
...cans save tin and iron for war uses. They can be made by the same machinery that makes tin cans, are cheaper than glass containers, which cost more than tin cans. But fiber cans are suitable chiefly for dry products like drugs, spices, powders. Since they cannot be used for processed foods which must be hermetically sealed, canmakers believe that after the war fiber cans will no more replace tin cans than zippers have replaced buttons...
...trouble." He has a closed A.F. of L. shop in his 800-man shipbuilding plant in Duluth, a closed C.I.O. shop in his nearby Klearflax Linen Looms, Inc. (which not only makes linen rugs but, for three years, has enriched itself with a new process for treating coarse flax fiber for cigaret paper). What's more, he believes the closed shop is the best way for an employer to avoid "a fighting, quarreling type of labor leadership...