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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Permit me to observe that you have done a very interesting and thorough research job in getting together the very interesting sketch that you present this week on Wendell L. Willkie [TIME, July 31]. It is always worthwhile to spotlight men who have done an outstanding job in their field. Too much credit can not be given to Mr. Willkie for leading the way back to sane business-government relations...
...Blood was shed last week at Green Mountain Dam in the Colorado Rockies, where a private contractor is building a dam for the U. S. Reclamation Bureau. Five A. F. of L. unions struck last month for a closed shop at the dam. Last week 200 deputized vigilantes (non-strikers, ranchers, businessmen) attacked the strikers, shot and wounded five, subsided only when Governor Ralph L. Carr sent National Guardsmen to quell "a state of insurrection...
...first separate agreement for those key workers; 2) general wage hikes for them, so scaled as to level out differentials between G. M. plants; and 3) some form of exclusive recognition to help C. I. O. finish off what was left of Homer Martin's A. F. of L.-affiliated U. A. W. Messrs. Knudsen and Reuther in separate memoranda disclosed that G. M. had: consented to deal with its striking craftsmen apart from some 100,000 idle but nonstriking production workers ; granted many wage increases but not a general one; agreed to eliminate some wage differentials, narrow others...
...foothold. For, instead of holding the elections on a company-wide basis, as C. I. O. asked, the Labor Board called for voting plant-by-plant. General Motors, Chrysler and others thus would have to deal with C. I. O. in some shops, A. F. of L. in others...
...Painter and The Lady develops, Author Blake (who dedicates it to Ralph Fox, killed fighting for Republican Spain) submerges his characters in the rising tide of the Front Populaire. Stéphane returns to Marseille as an active Communist, and after Lévy-Ruhlmann's murder, is wrongly accused of the crime and convicted. Novel's end comes in June 1936, the month the Front Populaire took office, with Stéphane's execution a dark symbol foreshadowing the political schisms that are to follow...