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...business in which he was once the biggest U.S. exporter. But last week he came back > into the news again with a plan for improving labor relations by giving first call on jobs to the neediest workmen—and paying them the union scale of $51 for a 60-hour shipyard week—even if they had never before earned half that much. To prove his theory, he had made a place in his shipyards for 169 men who were almost down & out, and he was well pleased with the result. As for his labor force, the A.F. of L. local leaders...
Good Heart. When Julius Barnes went back to Duluth from Manhattan to reopen his old shipyard last November, 3,000 men lined up for jobs. Many were hired for their special skills, but to pick his other labor he enlisted the aid of the Junior Chamber of Commerce and gave them a professional investigator...
...fragrance of incense, the throb of Russian choir music, a dazzle of peacock blues, flaming reds and gold filled the Baltimore Museum. It was also filled with socialite art tasters and leather-jacketed shipyard workers who had come to see "The Golden Age of the Russian Icon"-sacred pictures from the ancient towns of Holy Russia (Kiev, Novgorod, Moscow) in the religious setting that alone gives them meaning...
...First major anti-inflation move by labor: A.F. of L. and C.I.O. negotiators for U.S. shipyard workers agreed to take a 7% over-all wage increase instead of the 13% their cost-of-living contract specified, and to take it in war bonds...
...fall to Ceylon, where there are not? The CKDs would become junk. Anyway, speed looks more important than space saving to the Army now. Hence three-fourths of the "cubic" of many ships to Australia continues to be wasted. Last week Rear Admiral John W. Greenslade told Oakland shipyard workers that thousands of needed Army trucks have been stored in the U.S. for lack of shipping space. Some Australians think this system is crazy. Fiercely proud of their young, protected industrial development, they claim they still have available capacity for assembling trucks despite all-out production...