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...Lew Schwellenbach, believing that the labor storm was somewhere back in the hills, had other plans too. But he scarcely got them on paper when the facts of lift-went thundering past the facts of administrative doodling...
...Approach. So far, what had Lew Schwellenbach done in his new job? Mainly he had busied himself with trying to knock an organization together...
...Washington, where the Administration was frantically trying to catch up with the facts of peacetime life, worried Labor Secretary Lew Schwellenbach reflected the Government's confusion. To labor and management representatives from the strike-ridden oil industry he said: "The Government, representing 30,000,000 people, and particularly representing the young men we have overseas, is here begging and pleading with you that you get together." The Government, with the war over, was reluctant to exercise its only positive power-seizure and operation of struck plants. Thus Lew Schwellenbach was left with the slender tools of conciliation and persuasion...
Vital Spot. In dealing personally with the oil strike, Lew Schwellenbach was trying to meet the most immediate of many dangers. Already, 35,000 refinery workers were out in seven states; another 250,000 threatened to walk out. Gasoline supplies were running low in many states...
...Army & Navy warned that fuel shortages would interfere with demobilization. Said Lew Schwellenbach: "The very mechanics of operation of our economy are being threatened...