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...walking out, 400,000 workers had already done so. Much of industrial Massachusetts was without transportation because its bus and trolley workers had walked off the job; Governor Maurice J. Tobin seized the bus and trolley lines, in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The West Coast lumber industry was still stalemated by striking A.F. of L. lumbermen. In New York City, workers in pasteurization plants threatened a strike that would leave the city's 7½ million without milk...
Across the U.S., from Montauk Point to Malibu Beach, the tide of labor unrest seethed angrily. In oil, automobiles, coal, lumber, textiles and many another industry, there were strikes, shutdowns, and threats of strikes. At one time last week 420,000 workers were idle. While many an industrial plant ran at less than full power because it could not staff its machinery, the first blows of violence rose ominously...
...Pacific Northwest, 60,000 A.F. of L. lumber workers were...
...which would be more flexible than the badly bent "Little Steel" formula. ¶ The 40-hour week would again be standard. That meant an immediate cut in the take-home pay ¶ Controls on raw materials would be lifted completely, except on still critical items, such as tin, rubber, lumber. Industry would be given a green light, but WPB would remain as a sort of umpire to prevent a mad and unseemly scramble. One result: automobile-makers (with WPB blessing) promptly upped their estimates of how many cars can be turned out in 1945-from...
...More than 75% of its orders for cotton and wool textiles, leather, lumber, shoes...