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While the overwhelming majority of Jewish spokesmen deplored the outrage, an extremist Zionist band known as the Irgun Zvai Leumi took credit for it. Inferentially, it deprecated the loss of life by claiming to have telephoned a warning to the King David's switchboard...
...Chicago, a committee of bigwigs of both leagues mulled it over, made a precedent-breaking decision: before they draft next year's uniform contracts (containing rules for individual player contracts), they will listen to grievances of player-spokesmen from all clubs. Probable first target of the players: the "reserve clause," which makes a contract binding on a player but allows a club to terminate it on ten days' notice. Other likely demands: a minimum salary ($5,000 or more) and a share in the profit when owners sell players to another club...
Died. Sidney Hillman, 59, Lithuanian-born president of the C.I.O.'s well-disciplined Amalgamated Clothing Workers, founder of the P.A.C. and one of U.S. labor's political spokesmen; of coronary thrombosis; in Point Lookout, Long Island (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Curran, who had never really wanted a strike, was soon satisfied after Government spokesmen pushed a stack of chips to the middle of the table. The chips: for all seamen, a $17.50 flat monthly increase and overtime at $1 an hour. With normal overtime, now to begin after 48 hours instead of 56, this would give an AB (now making $145 a month) close to $200-what he earned in wartime. This was good enough for Curran's seagoing National Maritime Union...
France faced its most important decision since 1940. Yet the campaign preceding this Sunday's Constitution referendum was strangely blurred. The speeches of party spokesmen did not bring home to French voters how the Communist master carpenters of the Constitution were on the threshold of a new phase of power...