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...home front troops continued to lose ground last week in the campaign against inflation. Barry Bosworth, chief of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, repeated that inflation will not be slowed until pay increases in major union settlements decline to 7%, from 10% in recent contracts. But 13 railway unions were busy wrapping up a much richer pact...
Four of the unions, covering 340,000 of the nation's 496,000 railway workers, signed a "memo of understanding" for a threeyear, 35% increase in wages and cost of living allowances. John Sytsma, president of the Locomotive Engineers, declared that his members had shown "admirable restraint" because they had originally asked for a 45% raise. Said Sytsma: "It's not quite fair to make labor the whipping boy for inflation...
Carter's inflation fighters cannot afford another grossly inflationary settlement, after having lost earlier this year on the mine workers and then the railway men. If postal workers do, in fact, win a fat raise, it would not only lead to higher postage rates, but leave no hope of holding the line on the Teamsters, the Auto Workers, the Electrical Workers and Building and Construction Trades unions next year...
...along the railway tracks, as far as I could see, trailed an endless procession. They walked...
...famine of 1943 was one of the worst in modern history. But it sounded as if it would make a story. So, at the end of February 1943, I flew to North China with my friend Harrison Forman of the London Times, and won permission to travel the Lunghai railway from Paochi through Sian to the gap through which the Yellow River flowed and the railway ran. The Japanese, on the far side of the river, habitually shelled this gap by day. The station at the break, where we spent the evening, stank of urine, stank of shit, stank...