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...hour day, slower schedules. The capital, without its 5,000 chugging, swaying, double-decker busses, which carry 5,000,000 passengers a day, looked strange, and only taxi-drivers, who did a roaring business, rejoiced in their absence. Two other labor clouds loomed ominously: first, many subway and streetcar workers were eager to stage a sympathetic walkout; second, miners all over the country threatened to strike a week after the Coronation, unless Harworth (Nottinghamshire) colliery owners dropped their company unions, recognized the national Mineworkers' Federation...
...chairman is Joseph Warren Madden, a quiet, friendly, good-humored scholar, greying at 47, who has been law professor at Cornell, Stanford, Chicago, Oklahoma, Ohio State, West Virginia and Pittsburgh universities. No recluse, he served in Pittsburgh on an NRA regional labor board, a special committee to arbitrate a streetcar strike, a Governor's commission on special policing in industry, a federation of social agencies, a housing association. For fun he leads an orchestra composed of his three sons and two daughters, plays tennis with his sons and baseball with the NLRB employes team, digs in his garden...
...Northwest, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners was scrambling for members everywhere from lumber camps to furniture factories. Out to enlist every Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. employe, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers adopted a system of Class B memberships for non-members of its craft. Machinists, streetcar and other craft unions were spreading out on the same lines, working up to a first-rate Federation family quarrel. The president of C. I. O.'s United Electrical & Radio Workers, also out to organize Westinghouse, cheerfully noted that to achieve its aim his A. F. of L. rival would have...
...California navel oranges and growers of Florida Valencia oranges have discreetly avoided talking down the other fellows' fruit in northern cities where the chief customers of both live. The California Fruit Growers Exchange broke this discreet merchandising convention this winter by advertising flatly in newspapers and magazines, on streetcar cards and billboards: "Sunkist navel oranges are 22% richer in vitamin C [anti-scurvy, anti-colds] than Florida oranges...
...elevated train rammed a wooden one on Chicago's North Side, killing11, injuring 67. Some of the victims complained of ambulance chasers. Last week, after a secret investigation, police arrested eight ringleaders, estimated that their gang comprised 1,500 lawyers, doctors, undertakers, hospital attaches, police station loungers, runners, streetcar motormen, professional witnesses...