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...industry for many months-until the public was fed up and Congress indignant-he either had to put up or curl up. The three strikes which put him in that spot were in the logging camps of the Northwest, in San Francisco shipyards, at North American Aviation, Inc., in Inglewood, Calif. In each case strikers had arrogantly defied the Federal Government. In each case responsible labor leaders repudiated the strike. So finally the President spanked...
...Mediation Board, which summoned management and union leaders to Washington. The C.I.O. union agreed not to strike during negotiations. Management promised to make any settlement retroactive to May i. But in the middle of negotiations, William P. Goodman, local union spokesman, bawled that the company was "stalling," and the Inglewood local walked out. Work on some $200,000,000 worth of U.S. and British contracts for bombers, pursuit planes and combat trainers ceased...
...determination of the Union, shown at its meeting yesterday, not to be browbeaten by President Roosevelt's threat of force provides an indication of how labor all over the country will react to the presence of two battalions of infantry in the offing. If the Army takes over in Inglewood tomorrow the strike will be farther from solution than ever...
...that this week manufacturers buzzed through the Army and Navy offices ironing out last wrinkles before signing the $80,000,000 in contracts already waiting for them. Meanwhile, from NDAC came word of one big manufacturer who had gone ahead building without contracts, hoping for the best. At Inglewood, Calif., production-wise President James Howard Kindelberger of North American Aviation has been turning out advanced training planes, stacking them on the shelf, for delivery. Boss of a company that is 29.1% owned by Bill Knudsen's General Motors Corp., "Dutch" Kindelberger was banking on promises and the urgent necessity...
...crafting is a sensational airplane plant building boom. At Paterson (N. J.) Curtiss-Wright's Wright Aeronautical Corp., flush with $7,000,000 of new Army business, got ready last week to build 300,000 sq. ft. of new floor space. In California -at Inglewood, San Diego, Hawthorne-North American Aviation, Consolidated Aircraft, Northrop, planned new buildings. Newest centre of U. S. aircraft's effort to reach the stature of a mass instead of unit producing industry is Detroit, where 27 companies have been officially approved as parts suppliers for war planes...