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Immovable Object. In Santa Monica, Calif., Store Picket Albert H. Yalowitz, 49, was jailed on charges of slugging Customer Michael Adams, 15, despite his plea that Adams "ran into my fist...
...only two dailies have been closed by a strike of the American Newspaper Guild. When Guild members on the morning Record (circ. 29,177) and evening Times-Leader-News (circ. 59,594) walked out during bargaining on a new contract, mechanical employees of the papers refused to cross the picket lines, thus forcing the papers to stop publishing altogether. Guildsmen wanted five-year minimums raised to $125 a week (from $103), a 35-hour work week (instead of 39), and fringe benefits. The Guild also objected to compulsory arbitration of all disputes, which tne management wanted in the contract. During...
Except here and there a stray picket...
...picket lines, Natsukawa was stoned and mauled when he tried to drive through in his Cadillac. Contributions poured in from sympathizers abroad ($1,000 from the C.I.O. Textile Workers, $2,800 from the British textile workers). Britain's touring Laborites visited the strikers, hailed their "epochmaking fight," indicated firmly that however hopeful they might feel about coexistence with China, there could be none with Japan if the Japanese reverted to a prewar policy of sweated labor and "cheap goods." The conservative government of Premier Yoshida took alarm...
...American labor and American business can best resolve their wage problems across the bargaining table. Government should refrain from sitting in with them." Since then, the Republican Administration has faithfully followed a hands-off policy in labor-management relations. How well has the policy worked? From the bargaining tables, picket lines and Government statistics last week came the answer...