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Chairman William says labor was one of the main reasons the company fell so far and so fast. About two years ago truck drivers, charged with as many as 650 steamer baskets a day, began to report that longshoremen refused to handle the baskets because the drivers were nonunion. The drivers organized. Then they themselves objected to taking hot goods from non-union warehousemen. The warehousemen organized. So, in turn, did the grocery clerks, and the office force, until Charles & Co. was 100% union. All this, says Chairman William, cost the firm between $52,000 and $55,000 annually...
...Carey nevertheless thought he had done well for them: Philco had threatened to move out of Philadelphia, had already sublet its work to nonunion, out-of-town shops, and union men & women had been selling stuffed dates, shining shoes, going on relief. Principal union advantage: wealthy, fair-minded Trucker James Patrick Clarke is to arbitrate disputes, see to it that Philco keeps most of its production in Philadelphia...
Consternation reigned in a Brooklyn theatre last week. The leading lady in a revival of White Cargo had three beads on her scanties and one of her beads, it was discovered, had been sewed on by nonunion hands. Local 21313, Theatrical Costume Workers Union of the American Federation of Labor immediately threw cordons of pickets around the theatre for two nights. On the third night a settlement was reached. The settlement: the offending bead was plucked off, the part played thenceforth in two beads...
Last week at NRA's deathbed Mr. Lewis and the operators agreed that this private NRA-AAA for soft coal was an easy way out for them all. Only objectors were Southern coal operators, traditionally nonunion, low. price sellers who were always dissatisfied with their treatment under NRA. They wanted to continue negotiations to avoid a strike. Last week Mr. Lewis and the Northern operators, who want price-fixing, ganged up. They outvoted the Southerners, 44-to-9, to suspend all negotiations, i.e. have a strike June 17. By this means they figured Congress would be bludgeoned into passing...
...Buildings began stocking cordwood in their basements. Seattle kept an anxious eye on San Francisco. Fuel oil supplies were so low that in hotels and apartment houses hot water was curtailed. Many a filling station hung out the NO GAS sign. One ferry was converted to burn wood. But nonunion laborers continued to load cargoes, and Seattle had hopes that the conservative wing of its unionists would avert a complete walkout...