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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Nelson G. Kraschel and NLRB collided in a test of State v. expanding U. S. sovereignty. In paternalized Newton, where C. I. 6. employes of The Maytag Co. are striking against a pay cut (TIME, July 25), Governor Kraschel had declared martial law, closed the recently reopened Maytag plant. Reason: Maytag rejected a settlement proposed by Kraschel arbitrators, started the plant against the Governor's wishes, precipitated fighting between non-union and C. I. O. men. While Kraschel troopers ruled Newton and the Governor garnered much labor support in his campaign for reelection, NLRB Examiner Madison Hill heard...
...paradox that by modern standards such Kahn buildings as the Dodge truck plant (see cut) are nearer to 90% art. It is another paradox that when Albert Kahn gets away from his factories, with plenty of money to spend on the job. he luxuriates in a synthetic style exemplified at its cheesiest in the $20,000,000 boom-time Fisher Building in Detroit. For fun, he allows himself to design one house a year-this year a Georgian one. Senior of six brothers, four of whom he put through college, two of whom work in the Kahn firm, Albert...
Efforts to end this stalemate reached a peak last month just before Congress passed the Lend-Spend bill. A provision in this bill forbidding PWA to build any more power plants in competition with private companies was removed by White House request, but Senate Majority Leader Barkley announced that "the President does not contemplate" any further such competition "unless and until such municipality as may apply for such allocation has in good faith made an offer to purchase the existing private plant...
...Columbia Gas & Electric Corp. subsidiary extended a 20-inch natural gas pipe line originating in Kentucky to the outskirts of Coatesville. There it came to a dead end at Poor House Road, 31 miles from Lukens' plant. Philadelphia Electric Co., which holds a franchise to distribute gas in Coatesville, was reported to have wanted to charge Lukens some $100,000 annually as commission for linking it to the Columbia pipe line. After several years of political fencing, Columbia's subsidiary this year dug in for a finish fight with the State's powerful coal interests, who were...
...income from coal, asserted that State industries might be robbed of much-needed revenue. Steelman Wolcott replied that he bought only 55,000 tons of Pennsylvania coal a year, anyway (plus 20,000 tons from West Virginia), would continue doing so-unless continued losses forced him to close the plant. Coatesville townsfolk, about 90% of whom depend on Lukens for a living, backed his plea and last week Pennsylvania's Public Utility Commission decided Lukens could buy its gas direct from Columbia's subsidiary. Henceforth, instead of the 20,000 tons of West Virginia bituminous...