Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Received a report from its Labor Committee that a 1941 strike at the Allis-Chalmers plant near Milwaukee was called at the direction of the Communist party. The committee charged Harold Christoffel and Robert Buse, past & present presidents of the U.A.W. local, with falsely testifying while under oath, asked the Justice Department to prosecute them...
Mayor Jijén also dedicated the first two of 800 projected houses in a new workers' village for Indians, to replace windowless adobe huts. Among other projects are new markets, to replace ancient fly-infested stands, a new slaughterhouse, and a new municipal power plant, on order from the U.S. Says Mayor Jijén: "I suppose that's enough to begin with...
...week's end, worried Keys called his strikers together to see what should be done. He confessed that he had been wrong-along with many industrialists-in his belief that a foreman's strike could shut down a mass-production plant at once, but he hoped another week might turn the trick. The strikers had little hope of winning their demand for exclusive bargaining rights for supervisory employees not now F.A.A. members. Nevertheless, they voted to stay out for fear, as one said: "If we go back without a contract they'll weed...
...that in the last year he has paid $206,000 above the mill price for sheet steel. And he paid $18,000 more for steel he never got. He is now paying from $250 to $280 a ton for sheet steel (mill price: $50 a ton) to keep his plant going...
Arthur Boehn, of Cleveland's Boehn Pressure Steel Corp., said that his company had paid up to 14? a pound (mill price: around 3?). Last week he gave up in disgust, laid off his 100 employees, shut his plant...