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...Hillman, of course," said Lewis, "is responsible for the fantastic procedure which has been followed. His attitude of vengeful and malignant opposition to the interests of the United Mine Workers is only equaled by the fury of his actions against the United Construction Workers* in the Currier Lumber case." As for calling off the strike-in his own brand of inflated English, Mr. Lewis told the President of the U.S. to go jump in the lake...
...Enough lumber to make thousands of such boxes, which can also be used for other needs if the emergency blows over, has been set aside and will not be touched until the time comes. Library authorities have estimated that 120 can be made and packed...
...Japan, Nipponese officials claim that American and Dutch concerns have stocked her with enough gasoline for a year. Furthermore, rumors are of ten heard that our oil companies are still sending crude fuel which is cracked upon arrival. We are still shipping scrap iron, tin plate, cotton, aluminum, lumber, and hides, and are still buying silk...
...part of its defense-housing program, FWA, planning to put up 300 houses in Detroit, asked for bids. The big Currier Lumber Co. of Detroit was $216,000 under its nearest rival. One reason: Currier's houses were prefabricated (factory-made in sections, to be assembled on the site). Although a housing shortage is one of the scandals of the defense program, A.F. of L. building unions have fought prefabrication from the start. They saw the new, streamlined process displacing their craftsmen with factory workers, their ancient union structures wrecked, their union bosses out in the cold. Furthermore, Currier...
...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...