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...ninth day of the nationwide copper strike, President Truman reluctantly trundled out a Taft-Hartley injunction for the first time since Korea, sent 53,700 members of the left-wing International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers back to their jobs. Already back at work were 8,300 employees of the huge Kennecott Copper Corp., which had made a separate peace with the union five days before. Kennecott's terms: a raise averaging 15? an hour (just a fraction of a cent more than its last offer before the strike began), and an additional 4½? an hour...
...Hartley Shawcross, President of the Board of Trade, went down last week to seagirt Cornwall, where he often goes sailing. There, in a luncheon speech, Socialist Shawcross made a defiant announcement: Britain has no intention of tossing overboard her small but growing trade with Iron Curtain countries, regardless of what the U.S. Congress says or does...
While Britain has banned the export of war materials to Red China, it has left the door wide open for trade with Red Russia. Board of Trade President Sir Hartley Shawcross told the House of Commons last week that in the first four months of 1951 Britain sent to Soviet countries $1,091,000 worth of electrical generators, 410 tons of mining machinery and 23,596 tons of raw rubber...
Prime Minister Attlee's Labor government, whose ministers have been instructed not to criticize the U.S., last week: ¶ Prohibited further exports of rubber to Communist China (but not to Russia). President of the Board of Trade Sir Hartley Shawcross declared that China had already bought so much rubber this year "that her civilian needs can be regarded as satisfied for the current year." ¶Supported the U.S. proposal, adopted this week by the U.N. Additional Measures Committee, for a general embargo on shipments of arms and war-essential materials to Red China...
...London, Sir Hartley Shawcross, British prosecutor at the Nürnberg war crimes trials, and new President of the British Board of Trade, delivered a judgment on feminine fashions: "No woman in Britain should have so many clothes that she can ask her husband, 'What shall I wear tonight?' " Furthermore, he added, "the only clothes suitable for the wife of any member of the Government obviously are sackcloth and ashes nowadays...