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...Plata, where practically the entire (8,500) student body of the National University walked out, swashbuckling, militantly liberal University President Alfredo Lorenzo Palacios refused to dismiss six professors. When he received a second order, he resigned. The Vice President refused to accept the post, resigned likewise. So did the next two Councilmen in line. The mantle fell finally on the willing shoulders of nationalistic Dr. Ricardo Labougle. When he tried to speak to striking students, he was received with rotten eggs and firecrackers...
Sometimes weeping softly, sometimes roaring with rage, frog-voiced Mr. Riebel blamed all the troubles at Brewster on the "hellish" contract it had with C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers. He lashed out at the union's tough, headstrong boss, Tom De Lorenzo, impaled lesser officials as "punks and heels," denounced the local itself as that "gang of forty thieves." Carefully he explained that those opinions had grown in him only after he came to Brewster, last March. He had cozied up to the union. Said he: "I got in bed with Tom De Lorenzo, with the cover tucked...
Baffled Bundler. But Bundler Riebel soon found out that "every time I got in bed with Tom De Lorenzo I got out with less than I went in with." Riebel stopped bundling, started battling. He got nowhere that way, either. Meanwhile he had other troubles, which he tried to solve by firing top Brewster officials...
...Then the War Labor Board gave Kaiser a mighty boost by designating an arbiter to settle disputes on the spot, and put Brewster's union on probation for six months. With this solid backing, Kaiser sat down with the tough, headstrong boss of the Brewster union, Tom De Lorenzo,* got from him a promise that the union would cooperate. Mr. Kaiser, newly confident, predicted: "Brewster will be back on schedule this month. By the end of the year we will make up all our plane deficiencies and be hitting our schedules regularly...
...Manhattan-born Tom De Lorenzo, 35, became head of the Brewster local three yers ago, now collects $5,000 yearly to dictate its policies. A firm believer in "force as the only weapon," he vigorously opposes labor's "no strike" pledge. Last week he told the Washington Post "Our policy is not to win tho war at any cost," but "to win the war without sacrificing too many of the rights we have at the present time...