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Elliott Roosevelt had a week for the scrapbook. His As He Saw It (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3) was the subject of one radio program, would shortly be the subject of another, and out of Leningrad belatedly arrived an astrakhandid portrait of the author after a publicity man's heart (see cut). Elliott's answers to a couple of cozy questions on radio's Books on Trial: 1) "I am no Communist;" 2) "I did write the book myself. . . ." Mother Eleanor was his adviser, said he, and "severest critic...
DULCIMER STREET (637 pp.)-Norman Collins-Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
What should be done about labor unions? In this momentous argument Alfred P. Sloan Jr., board chairman of General Motors Corp., last week entered G.M.'s brief. Before the Boston Chamber of Commerce he laid down the general rule that labor's just rights must not be sacrificed, but the Wagner Act, which has "as a matter of fact, operated to deprive both workers and others of their rights," must either "fall" or be drastically amended. To his audience and to Congress Sloan suggested...
Above all, said Sloan, the principles of the Sherman Antitrust law must be applied to unions. The jurisdiction of any one union must be limited so that "the public interest is not substantially prejudiced by strikes." This, said Sloan, can be done either by 1) dissolving existing unions into smaller parts, or 2) restricting the number of plants in any one industry which may be struck at once...
Once the balance is restored to bargaining, it must then proceed "without restriction or interference from without, tp the very end, irrespective of the consequences on either party." Cried Sloan: "I am unalterably opposed to arbitration or anything of that kind in any form, under any conditions. ... It can only lead to a regimented economy...