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...President Gwilym A. Price at his union's convention and proclaimed : "We've found a way to sit down, discuss, argue, and then resolve differences in the truly American spirit of give and take." Now, Carey accuses Price and his company of "moral irresponsibility, economic depravity, scab-herding, contract-breaking"; in return. Price accuses Carey and his union of "gangsterism, deliberate planned violence." While strike lines have swollen, the two negotiating teams have met only three times in the last two weeks, only to break up quickly, once with Westinghouse spokesmen storming out and accusing the union conferees...
...nation's hottest labor issue is not being fought on picket lines or in Washington. It is being fought in state legislatures over bills and laws to ban union-shop and maintenance-of-membership contracts. Such laws, generally called "right to work" laws by legislators and "right to scab" laws by union men, are now on the books of 18 states. Utah's was enacted this year; the other 17 are in the eleven Southern states, plus Arizona, Iowa, Nebraska, Nevada and the two Dakotas...
Four months after Novelist Edna Ferber called New York the filthiest city in the world and "a scab on the face of our country," Mrs. Wendell Willkie, widow of the 1940 presidential candidate, arrived from Europe with a new blast. "I think New York is the dirtiest city I've ever been in, and I love New York," said Edith Willkie. But she had the start of a solution: "I'm willing to go out with a broom and help clean up myself...
...Queen Elizabeth, as it docked in New York last week. Even before setting foot ashore, she had some harsh words to say about the city: "New York is the dirtiest city in the world ... a once exquisitely beautiful woman who has declined into a dirty, degraded, blowzy person ... a scab on the face of our country." The streets, she added, were covered with garbage, "and I don't mean dirt...
...Caesar Petrillo was deeply annoyed when he heard that one of his boys, Conductor Artur Rodzinski, had made some unauthorized (by Petrillo) recordings in Vienna last March. Now, getting wind that Maestro Rodzinski might cut a few more longhair platters in Europe, Little Caesar thundered: "If he wants to scab, he'd better get out of the union. And if he leaves...he won't be worth a plugged nickel. He'd walk out on the stage and [our members] would walk out on him. That's what would happen to the great Rodzinski...