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...Franklin Roosevelt also ordered Ward's to obey two War Labor Board directives: 1) to pay retroactive raises to 17% of Ward's 70,000 employes;* 2) to sign a union contract guaranteeing maintenance of membership. Sputtered Sewell Avery, the New Deal's No. 1 industrial hairshirt: "Arbitrary . . . coercive . . . illegal." Citing Roosevelt's failure to act against James C. Petrillo, he added: "If the President can, as he pleases . . . seize the property of some but not of others the nation no longer has a government...
...University of Chicago. He has raised $5,000,000 for expansion of Howard, which today has 2,108 men and women students in nine graduate and undergraduate branches, gets most of its money for operating expenses from the U. S. Government. Abuse from disgruntled alumni has been the hairshirt of Howard University presidents, even of its first president, O. O. Howard, who was investigated by a Congressional committee and exonerated. All of it is due, President Johnson insists, to the hope of Negro intellectuals close to the Government that they may get jobs if there is a shakeup...