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...sealed their historic bargain last March, most observers sighed with relief, assumed that the threat of a great steel strike which had been hanging over the nation for months was ended. They reckoned, however, without Steel's major "independents" - Bethlehem, Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, National, Jones & Laughlin, Crucible, Inland, American Rolling Mill-to whom Big Steel's concession was a shocking betrayal of the industry's traditional united front against unionism...
...window, then scrambled out herself with the third. One child died, as did her husband. The others had chances of pulling through. Stewardess Elsa Ernst got away by sliding down a rope. Said she: "I could hear my hair crinkling as it burned." Passenger Herbert O'Laughlin, who ran black-faced into the hangar looking for a telephone to call his mother in Chicago, said: "I was in my cabin . . . packing . . . when I felt a slight tremor. . . . There was very little confusion among the passengers, no screaming, hardly any noise." Captain Pruss said nothing, held incommunicado by doctors...
...remaining three cases held the gist of the case: were the steel industry (Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.), the automobile industry (Fruehauf Trailer Co.) and the clothing industry (Friedman-Harry Marks Clothing Co., Inc.) subject to the Wagner Act, obliged to obey the orders of the Labor Board to restore discharged employes, to refrain from intimidating employes against joining a union...
...think it is clear that the National Labor Relations Act may be construed so as to operate within the spirit of constitutional authority. . . . "Employes have as clear a right to organize and select their representatives for lawful purposes as the respondent [Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.] has to organize its business and select its own officers and agents. "Discrimination and coercion to prevent the free exercise of the right of employes to self-organization and representation is a proper subject for condemnation by competent legislative authority...
...exodus is already well under way. Going last week was John Burns, general counsel of SEC, father of five children, to a better paying job. Going were five of SEC's younger officials; gone Reginald Laughlin, RFC's assistant to the general counsel; going the assistant general counsel from the Treasury; gone AAA's director of the North Central Division to a packing firm, its assistant Southern director to a big cotton ranch, the head of its sugar section to the Sugar Institute. Gone after his chief was one of Rexford Tugwell's economists, to represent...