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...testified that Papa would indeed put a merchant out of business, if he did not go along with him. Fred H. Vahlsing, wholesale fruit-&-vegetable jobber, testified that when he refused to sign a union contract in 1945, Papa had forced him to shut up shop. Out-of-town members of Papa's union had to pay his local an "unloading fee" of from $2.50 to $14.28 on any truck they drove into New York. One Congressman estimated that these fees added $21,600 daily to Papa's coffers...
...makes LaGuardia airport in an average 20 minutes (12 minutes, if pressed) with pictures and maps for the printing plants in Chicago and Los Angeles. He has yet to miss a plane. He meets trains, buses, ships, picks up urgently needed research books, out-of-town newspapers, late pictures from the picture services...
Minor Inconvenience. In New York City, the strikebound 10% were advised to use police boxes in a pinch. In Chicago, big businesses with perishable out-of-town orders put most long distance calls in the emergency (fire, flood, death) or urgent business category, got cut off occasionally when they started a supposedly desperate call with a windy "How's the weather out there?" Chicago suburbanites had their crises too. James Ruzek, who lives in dialless Berwyn, works in a struck plant in dialless Cicero, and has a worrying wife, sent his pet carrier pigeon flying home daily with...
Last week Sherman Bowles's non-union and all but adless Daily News reached 80,000 circulation despite pickets around the building. Its circulation is now half what the entire monopoly's was before the strike. People bought it, ignoring strikers' pleas to take out-of-town papers instead. Sherman Bowles has reached a truce with his pressmen and stereotypers and hopes to talk his printers into working without a contract. His dispirited employees of the Newspaper Guild, who struck only after he fired them, might be left out in the cold if the other unions went...
...reported not only to the Yard cops, but to the Cambridge police. The way the city police have with these cases involves a check on the lists submitted daily by pawnbrokers of goods passing through their shops. In special cases, the city often details men to check out-of-town lists...