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...Mediation Board made one last effort-an appeal to the steelmen to talk to John L. Lewis face to face-but was rebuffed. Then, citing pressing personal duties, the members of the board prepared to disperse. S.W.O.C.'s Philip Murray now suggested that the dispute be turned over to President Roosevelt for personal arbitration. The incongruity of this was that the President of the U. S. had disqualified himself as an impartial judge by declaring for the C.I.O. position last fortnight...
...version of the statement given to the Mediation Board, Mr. Girdler immediately opened up on Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey, no member of the Post Offices Committee but on hand for a morning of Girdler-baiting. The Committee had understood from Philip Murray and Senator Guffey that the steelmen did have an oral agreement with C.I.O...
...emerging. the directors blandly announced the unanimous election of Steelman Girdler, whose Chicago plant was within a few hours to be steel's bloody ground for the week. One of the two vice-presidencies went to Mr. Irvin, the other to Mr. Weir, who later greeted the banqueting steelmen with a perfect Fascist salute. It was a sweet, though probably hollow, victory for the embattled independents, for it meant that the Institute still stood for a last-ditch fight for the Open Shop...
Having maneuvered Mr. Lewis and his directors into willingness to compromise, Mr. Taylor was then beset from another quarter. Some independent steelmen got wind of the Taylor-Lewis meetings, went to see Mr. Taylor. Apprised of the conversations, the independents argued heatedly for a wage boost instead of recognition. Mr. Taylor thought that wages were not the real issue and a wage increase could be avoided if recognition were granted. In this he was wrong. But confused by Big Steel's sudden refusal to play with them, the independents did nothing about their own scheme. In the time thus...
...seamen. Holding out for still higher pay, however, Detroit sailors last week were stubborn enough to cause an appeal for Federal mediation. At Hamilton, Ont., 235 longshoremen struck for a new 50?-per-hour contract. Somewhat alarmed over these signs of the times on the lake front, miners and steelmen in Duluth began considering what had never been considered before-the possibility of shipping iron ore east by rail...