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This week Lewis Clark led his men back to work. Housewives heaved a sigh of relief. So did farmers-the hog run, stopped at its peak, had backed up all over the Midwest, and grain for feeding was running low. So, too, did Lewis Clark's union...
...Poor, proud, tough and relatively small, the packinghouse union was born in 1937 of the repeated failures of the A.F. of L. and independent unions to wring concessions from the "Big Four" packers (Swift, Armour, Cudahy & Wilson). At the core of its membership are Negro/Irish, Slav and Mexican knockers, hog-splitters, blood-catchers and miscellaneous workers who do the hard, dangerous, foul-smelling labor in the huge packing plants...
...President Clark, an ex-hog butcher, and his conservative fellow officers. They try to do the will of their tumultuous rank-&-file, keep the union's neck in and hold down its strong left wing (led by jut-jawed Director Herbert March of District 1), all at the same time...
Tomorrow's Plans. What the advocates of economic nationalism had accomplished was not a patch on what they planned. "The Latin Americans," said the Commerce Department's George Wythe, author of the current and authoritative Industry in Latin America (Columbia University Press; $4), "have gone hog-wild for industrialization...
...jerky year for business. Despite the lack of new irons, toasters, and washing machines, household use of electricity went up 9%. Life insurance ownership ran to an all-time high of $154,600,000,000. Chicago's cattle supply was bigger than it had been since 1929, but hog deliveries were the lowest since 1872. Sale of snuff rose to a record 44,000,000 Ibs. At year's end 175,000 striking General Motors production workers had suffered an estimated wage loss...