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...Answer. John Lewis' opening gun had been a plea: his miners were hungry. Midway in the battle he shifted tactics, demanded the raise on the basis of "portal-to-portal" pay, i.e., money for time spent going to & from work...
Forthwith WLB turned down any wage rise for the miners, curtly told John Lewis that the portal-to-portal issue must be settled through a lawsuit...
...first two objectives, he would settle for federalization of the mines. This week he began conferences with Harold Ickes. Best guess: the miners would return to work without a contract (Harold Ickes can be tough, too), leave to the courts the question of a pay rise via portal-to-portal...
Probably on account of Donald Nelson, or some A1Nav or other, things look blacker than black for the Independence Day week-end. We'll be right down in the salt mines as usual from the looks of things, and with no portal to portal pay either...
...Arthur was 49, and just about to turn 50 (in April), when he got the chance for which he had been schooling himself all his adult life. In early 1942 Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal (a year younger) offered Harris the R.A.F. Bomber Command. On Feb. 25, at a secluded headquarters somewhere near London, he took command. Just six days later, on March 3, the Germans learned that the R.A.F. also had a new bombing policy...