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...employes had just been organized by C.I.O. The news of the Currier bid was hardly out when John Michael Carmody, FWA head, got a call from a Detroit official of the A.F. of L. Building Trades Department. Had Mr. Carmody forgotten the stabilization agreement signed last summer by OPM and A.F. of L. Building Trades? In return for certain concessions, which included a promise to end work stoppages, OPM had granted A.F. of L. a virtual monopoly in the building field. Marred by a few wildcat strikes by a few undisciplined workers, the agreement had worked out pretty well...
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...
...have nearly doubled their output since March, can go no further because of the shortages in copper and machine tools needed for new stills. Yet reserve stocks are only 5,000,000 gallons (three or four days' supply) v. 32,919,000 gallons at war's beginning. OPM expressed the shortage thus: 1941 output 200,000,000 gallons; demand 213,000,000 gallons...
...OPM made this forecast before the liquor industry stepped up. By making a few quick (and inexpensive) changes in their present stills, the distillers can convert the shortage into a surplus. This will cut whiskey production by only 12-15%, not enough to worry barflies (current liquor stocks could last for five years). The Government meanwhile rids itself of some near-useless, near-rotting corn. The transportation squeeze is helped a bit because most distilleries and powder plants are in the same area-Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia...
Latest victim of priorities on scarce materials: fire-engine bells. Because "an ordinary siren will do the job," OPM last week forbade bells (on new fire engines) for the duration...