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Scene: Spring of 1939 on the U. S. S. Bushnell off the coast of Colombia. Yeoman striker Kerr interrupts his daily routine long enough to read a dispatch confirming his appointment to the Academy. It was a happy day in Seaman 2/c Kerr's life, for the dispatch was the fulfillment of his motive for joining the Navy...
...fast passenger train can pass at 3:04 p.m. Men on their runs at 6 a.m. would deliver their trains to terminals before going on strike; members would stay away from railroad property, avoid all violence; roll would be called twice a day in local strike headquarters; no striker could stay away from roll call without an excuse...
...Congressional outbursts which have resulted from this triangular antagonism are to be trusted, the "new legal approach" will take the form of either anti-striker or anti-closed-shop laws for the duration. This would be even more disastrous than the temporary loss of fuel, for Lewis has a case and the whole of labor would grow militant in its own defense. Lewis is certainly open to strong criticism for taking advantage of the Mediation Board's chicken-heartedness and refusing to delay the strike pending mediation. He seized this moment, opportune for him and inopportune for the country...
...Jersey City draft board swung even more decisively. It called in a striker at the National Bearing Metals Corp., tossed out his deferment, marked him Class 1-A (available for military service...
...week's end, the sadly burdened board had nine strikes on its hands, including the dispute at the John A. Roebling's Sons steel plants in Trenton and Roebling, N.J. Perkins had given up that dispute when C.I.O. strikers and non-strikers had attacked one another with jeers and baseball bats, and women strikers had stripped a woman non-striker of all but shoes and stockings. Blinking but unbowed, the Mediation Board ploughed...