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...alternative proposal that on the first day of February 1938, the entire membership of the American Federation of Labor, horse, foot and dragoon march into the Committee for Industrial Organization. . . ." After a little chuckle, he asked: "Fair enough? Fair enough, boys?" The miners clapped, and then uprose to howl approval as they got the point-that with C.I.O.'s voting strength John Lewis stood to win either way. Even Bill Green in Miami chuckled when he heard the proposal-and dismissed it as "impossible...
...this howl about a closed shop represents so much bunk," he emphasized. The A.F. of L. chief, who lives only three blocks from the Freshman Union, believed it amusing that so many important officers here raised such a fuss over exclusive bargaining rights...
Sectional Censorship. Chief affliction of U. S. textbook publishers is not greedy politicians or cutthroat competition, but censorship. Religious, racial, political, economic groups keep an eagle eye on schoolbooks, are quick to howl at what they consider irregularities. After Gary's School Superintendent William Wirt in 1934 charged that New Deal Brain Truster Rexford Guy Tugwell was a revolutionary plotter, Oak Park, Ill. and Kansas City dropped like a hot potato a book of which Professor Tugwell was coauthor, Our Economic Society and Its Problems, and its sales have fallen off one-third, according to Harcourt, Brace, its publishers...
Today he is looking for new friends, openly bidding for employer support in the war with C. I.O., and getting it-to an extent that makes C. I. O. howl that A. F. of L. is chartering company unions. Last week in Manhattan he asked the American Legion (see p. 12) for aid & comfort, declaring : "It is my well-considered opinion that the call of the hour is for a closer and stronger relationship between the American Federation of Labor and the American Legion...
...next twelve months. In return, the U. S. will grant the Soviet Union most-favored-nation commercial treatment for the first time. Unfavorable reaction to the new pact last week came from the Pennsylvania Coal industry whose United Mine Workers and mine operators let out a howl in unison. Both were alarmed because, in carrying out Secretary Hull's policy of building up foreign trade, the agreement was expected to exempt Soviet coal and coke from a special $2-a-ton tax, assessed under the Revenue Act of 1932. The coal industry's alarm diminished promptly when...