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...that a maintenance-of-union-membership clause is the logical reward due Labor for the no-strike pledge. But last week WLB filed a motion asking the Court to dismiss a request for an injunction against its enforcement of that key clause. The injunction was sought by the U.S. Gypsum Co., whose board chairman, Sewell Lee Avery (who also heads Montgomery Ward), has never been noted for his love of labor...
Last June, when WLB demanded that Gypsum show cause for refusing to comply with the Board's maintenance-of-membership directive (requiring all union members to remain members for the duration of the union contract, after a 15-day period for resignations), WLB spoke darkly of enforcing its order with all the war powers in the Commander in Chief's book -including seizure of plant, revocation of priorities, cancellation of war orders, etc. Gypsum challenged WLB, dragging out precedents from the Fifth ("due process") Amendment on down. Last week WLB asked that the whole case be dismissed...
...explanation of this change in WLB's tone, most observers did not look farther than to John L. Lewis' signal success in bypassing its jurisdiction. But the Court agreed with Gypsum, called WLB's about-face "fantastic" and "ridiculous," ruled that the case should go to trial. WLB does not have to go on fighting: it can do nothing for 20 days; the case will die, with Gypsum the winner...
...stabilization was impossible. Out of more than 1,000 decisions, WLB has had to refer only seven to Franklin Roosevelt for executive action. But among these seven were its key decisions. As long as labor, in the person of John L. Lewis, or management, notably Montgomery Ward and U.S. Gypsum, was able to defy it, the board could command no respect, achieve no final success in holding down wages...
...board out of a waste product (sugar cane stalks after the juice is squeezed out) and sold these boards to a building industry which knew little about heat insulation. A sugar famine and 1929 put Celotex into receivership. Reorganized under Dahlberg, Celotex acquired control of Certainteed Products Corp. (roofing, gypsum, plaster), began to merchandise many of the products required to build a house. Celotex makes Cemesto-a waterproof, fire-resistant building material 1½ inches thick, made of an inner core of Celotex faced with an asbestos cement-and with Cemesto hopes to mass-produce future U.S. housing...