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After warning those below decks that mutineers plotted to start a scrap, cause arrests, then seize the Convention, Joe showed another glimpse of red underwear by roughly quashing an attempt to have him and other officers investigated on charges that there were Communists in the union's high places. Waiter Joe Doyle* of the S.S. Ancon, proponent of the resolution, asked for a trial board of outsiders, with one Daily Worker Red on it. No support came from the floor. From the chair: "This resolution is designed for one purpose-to smash the N.M.U." Doyle replied that its sole...
...anything brings steel production down, it will probably be a shortage of pig iron and scrap. Pig was close to formal priorities last week, with defense already taking almost all its output. Scrap is short partly because it is under badly adjusted price controls, without sufficient price-incentive to hinterland junk dealers...
...shortage of 25,000,000 lb. per month. This still leaves no provision whatsoever for indirect military & civilian requirements. . . . Germany and the territory it now controls has a present capacity of 915,000,000 lb. ... by 1943 will have . . . 1,385,000,000 lb. without scrap aluminum." (If she conquers Russia and draws on Japan, the report said, she will have 1,915,000,000 lb. in 1943.) "In the light of the serious shortage," read Senator Mead, "it is interesting to note that substantial amounts are still permitted [by OPM] to the automobile industry for pleasure cars...
...finally admitted a direct military need of 1,200,000,000 lb. per annum, hoped to get 200,000,000 from Canada, 300,000,000 from scrap...
...basic manufacturing process reads like a roster of scarce materials: he uses nickel anodes for chrome-plating zinc die castings, which can't be made without aluminum. His best customer: General Motors, whose A. C. Spark Plug Co. can make die castings for G.M. from the scrap aluminum that other G.M. plants produce in the course of manufacturing, and from the zinc of which huge G.M. can get much more than tiny Gerity-Adrian. Today Gerity's sales are down 40% and his payroll 45%. He is frantically (and fruitlessly) looking for defense business to keep alive...