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...contract to Currier would cause "a reign of terror" in the building trades in Michigan. In other words, A.F. of L. would probably strike $50,000,000 worth of building in the Detroit area, to say nothing of what it might do to defense projects elsewhere in the U.S. OPM's Hillman took the responsibility of making the final decision. Although the Currier Co. had already started work, Mr. Hillman ordered its contract withheld. Then came the hurricane...
From C.I.O. came charges that Hillman "with stealthy efforts" was trying to make a deal with A.F. of L., was perpetrating "intolerable conditions that have retarded the progress of this industry." Congressman Howard Worth Smith demanded that A.F. of L. and the labor division of OPM (Mr. Hillman) be indicted for conspiracy to defraud the Government. Justice's trust-busting Thurman Wesley Arnold pawed the ground. The Truman Committee in the Senate, investigating the defense program, got ready to charge...
...Both OPM and OPA showed their teeth last week, for the first time got noncompliant businessmen up on charges...
...OPM's bad boy was a violator of priorities, a Chicagoan of undisclosed identity. Charge: he had obtained a "considerable quantity" of aluminum for defense use through preference ratings, had instead supplied it to old & good customers for non-defense purposes. After his day in court, behind closed doors, OPMites retired to weigh his degree of willfulness...
...weeks TIME'S Index has held within a 4½-point range. Car-loadings are still about 80,000 cars below the 1,000,000-car peak predicted for October. Auto production, some 30,000 units under 1940, is not even keeping pace with the quotas imposed by OPM. Even in the textile industry, fat with Army orders, output has declined sharply since June...