Word: lumbered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reputedly suggested only two weeks ago the possibility of prosecution of the A.F. of L. for violating the anti-trust laws. It was he who said that O.P.M.'s Hillman was wrong to grant 300 Michigan defense houses to the A.F. of L., when the C.I.O.-organized Currier Lumber Company had bid $431,000 lower. And it was Arnold who brought to light O.P.M's secret and illegal order granting the A.F. of L. a building works monopoly...
Meanwhile another housing mess appeared last week, involving OPM Associate Director Sidney Hillman. P. J. Currier, president of Detroit's Currier Lumber Co., month ago underbid competitors by $431,000 for an FWA contract to build 300 defense homes at Wayne, Mich. But he has not got the contract, he charges, because Hillman has virtually granted the A.F. of L. building trades unions a closed shop. Currier has a contract with the C.I.O. United Construction Workers. If he gets the job, A.F. of L. unions have threatened a Michigan-wide general walkout. FWA has asked OPM, Justice and Labor...
...twenty years it was used as a chapel, and when the Continental troops took over "the colledge" it was utilized as a court room for court martials. Later it housed 160 of these rough-and-ready soldiers who so ruined it that it was fit only for a combination lumber room, College carpenter shop, and fire house...
Chief shortages are in copper (for wiring, plumbing), zinc (for galvanized tanks and pipes), iron & steel (for reinforcements, hardware, screens, heating equipment). In some districts, due chiefly to transport difficulties, there have been shortages of lumber, glass, cement. In Atlanta recently, a builder had to make a 40-mile trip to find nails. In Chicago, Contractor Charles Joern stopped taking new orders 30 days ago; John Lindop will give no guarantees of completion date, insists on an escape clause in all contracts. In San Francisco the Associated Homebuilders have contemplated a 75% curtailment...
Whatever NDMB's future, he could point to a bright past. Of 72 labor disputes certified to it, only 15 were still pending. More significant than the number of settlements made was the fact that the Board had broken critical defense log jams in coal, steel, lumber, shipbuilding, ordnance, machinery, aviation. Even more significant for future U.S. labor relations had been the metamorphosis of the Board's own tri-partite personnel (representatives of management, labor and the public). Weighted with responsibilities, labor's own men had cracked down on many a reckless strike leader, read...