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...mark to aim at. But the Communists were like skunks: no one had to see them to know that they were there. Many a Congressman got a whiff. Democratic Leader McCormack announced before the Allis-Chalmers settlement: "We know that the Communists are in there working in Milwaukee." To OPM's angry William Knudsen, the important part of the Allis-Chalmers strike (in which he said 4,000,000 hours of time were lost) was "that the radical leaders with the help of other unions in Milwaukee and vicinity could show the State and the nation where...
Married. Selma Hillman, 19, dramatics student, younger daughter of OPM Co-Director Sidney Hillman; and Irving Lerner, 27, retail clothier; in Manhattan...
...shall ... try to appeal to the sound sense and the good will of all true Americans") and - adjourned. The Mediation Board could not deal with any strike until Madam Secretary Perkins gave the word ; and there was no word from Madam Perkins. Labor's man on OPM, Sidney Hillman, was Florida-bound, sick after a winter of worry and work. President Roosevelt was somewhere off the Florida coast. Labor's Perkins was junketing...
...Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. plant at West Allis, Wis. had been strikebound. Not a wheel had turned on $45,000,000 of defense orders. Late last week about a third (2,500) of the plant's workers went back to work-at the request of the Navy and OPM }. What effect did this one shutdown have on U. S. defense? Iron Age found that the Allis-Chalmers strike had hampered the work of around 30 firms and projects, more than a third of all defense contracts. The Allis-Chalmers strike had held up work...
...most doctrinaire supporter among columnists, mousy, 44-year-old "Jay Franklin" (real name: John Franklin Carter). Columnist Franklin then almost gluttonously ate the words of his column of a few days earlier. In it he had attacked "the machinations of certain 'dollar-a-year men' on the OPM," particularly * Here Am I (Random House; $3). John D. Diggers, Knudsen's head of Production, whom he accused of being the worst of "a certain element in the OPM to play corporation politics with the national defense and to use the boring-from-within technique of the Communists...