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Among all the labor bigwigs who attended the C.I.O. convention this month in Boston, no man had more unpleasant news on his mind than Left Wing Communist-inclined Reid Robinson, president of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. Coming up to Boston for a love feast with Phil Murray and the boys he ended up taking a trip across the continent in a U.S. Army bomber trying to quell mutiny among his own miners...
Cause of the hurried trip was the flat refusal of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Local No. 1 at Butte, Mont, to allow Negro workers down the shafts of Anaconda Copper. This was in grim defiance of C.I.O.'s strong pro-Negro policies. It was also in defiance of the U.S. Army, and of an Administration patently striving to promote amicable Negro-white relations among the labor forces of this country...
...Manpower shortages in Utah mines run up to 40%, cutting June tonnage as much as 50% at some shafts: U.S. Smelting's & Refining's Midvale smelter is so short of ore that it is running at only two-thirds of capacity...
Bill Batt's good word about the smelter brought to mind some minor bad news from Bolivia. Now that the Japs have cornered 90% of the world's tin supply Bolivia has regretted the 50? a lb. delivered price that looked so good before Pearl Harbor. Bolivia is now talking 60? at the embarkation point. Before the war high grade Straits...
Nothing Bolivia and Jesse Jones's smelter can do can solve the U.S. tin shortage. Though the U.S. has "a sizable stockpile," Batt pointed out, it can look forward to no more than 18,000 tons a year from Bolivia-about one-fifth of the nation's normal peacetime consumption. Ergo, said Batt, "glass and fiber containers are going to have to replace tin to a large extent for civilian...