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...after day. To avoid further delay the company offered the yard to the Government to run as it liked. The President, well aware of Federal's splendid production record, hesitated. Conferences got nowhere. And after 16 days of idleness in the East Coast's fourth largest private shipyard, Mr. Roosevelt told the Navy to take over...
...dock Co.'s vast yards in Kearny, N.J., labor and management came to an impasse over a matter of policy. Wages, hours and conditions of work had already been settled or were not a matter of serious dispute. For promising 0PM to forgo strikes for a year, C.I.O. shipyard workers demanded a "union shop." Federal, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, rejected the point on principle, stuck to Big Steel's long insistence on the open shop, turned down a Defense Mediation Board's compromise...
...Lord Halifax had won his point, and was at last identified by the U.S. as an individual rather than as a symbol of Britain's upper class. He flew from Los Angeles to San Francisco, talked to 700 men building marine engines for sub chasers, to 1,500 shipyard workers, was cheered by both groups. In San Francisco police had to clear a path for him to the speaker's table. He warned Japan that, while Britain had no desire to pick a quarrel, she would not let her interests in the Far East be set aside...
After a harrowing experience working as a rivet-boy in a shipyard, living with a wicked relative, Orphan Chisholm is rescued by horse-faced Aunt Polly. With her Irish saloonkeeper brother, a bluff, generous trencherman ("Now, Polly, our friends' stomachs will be thinking their throats is cut"), Aunt Polly brings Francis up, sends him to Holywell Catholic College...
Truman read him the passage. Would Hook go back to his A.F. of L. followers and recommend that they submit their demands ($1.15 instead of $1.12 an hour wages, double time instead of time and a half for overtime, a closed-shop contract with big Bethlehem shipyard) to arbitration? Hook flopped and squirmed, finally promised to put it up to the machinists but not with his recommendation, and fled from the angry committee, wailing that he had been "accorded brutal treatment." At week's end, except for a little work performed by nonstriking workers who had crossed the machinists...