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...thing that we knew would happen is happening," crowed Laborman Green, meeting with other A.F.of L. bigwigs in executive session in Atlantic City to prepare for the Federation's convention in Houston next month. Since the breakdown of C.I.O.-A.F. of L. peace negotiations last winter, William Green has rapidly gained confidence, and last week he was feeling sure of himself. After a parley with three of Mr. Dubinsky's vice presidents who set out to extend another feeler to Mr. Lewis in Washington, Mr. Green announced that the next peace move would have to come from C.I.O...
Last week's rumpus made it more doubtful than ever that, if & when Motorman Ford does sign a U. A. W. contract, the signature next to his will be Homer Martin's. For the split between Laborman Martin and his former colleagues had become an engagement of major importance in auto labor's bitter civil...
Neither Mr. Taylor nor Mr. Lewis attended the Biltmore conference. This year, as last, formal negotiations were left to those two sons of pick-&-shovel coal miners-Laborman Philip Murray and Steelman Benjamin Franklin Fairless. With the aid of their respective delegations, they simply put in black & white the generalities previously agreed upon. For the union, the new contract is not so favorable as the old. In the face of Recession's realities, John L. Lewis had been forced to yield ground...
...Lewis tried to put the best face he could on the contract with an optimistic declaration thai: "it preserves the current wage structure." But he devoted most of his statement to his old line of buttering up Steelman Taylor. Said Laborman Lewis: "The fact that our minds were able to meet on questions of principle and policy is a tribute to Mr. Taylor not only as a leader of industry but as an American devoted to the furtherance of ration,: relationships and national stability...
...Government sit down with Business and Labor? Will it invite this co-operation?" This modest suggestion made a great impression on George Harrison, head of A. F. of L.'s Brotherhood of Railway Clerks. Since Labor was sharing the brunt of Recession in layoffs and shortened hours, Laborman Harrison took it upon himself to bring Government and Business face to face. Soon he was scurrying back & forth between the President's son James and the better Manhattan clubs, and five men were selected to do the talking: Mr. Chester, Pennsylvania R. R.'s Martin W. Clement, Johns...