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Strategic Errors. That was John Lewis' way of repairing some grave errors in his own strategy. When the miners' contract ran out nearly three months ago he had modified the traditional "no contract, no work" policy by ordering all his soft-coal miners east of the Mississippi on a three-day week. But that strategem had fizzled...
...Next day John Lewis and Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, neutral trustee of the welfare fund, overruled the operators' Trustee Ezra Van Horn (who had submitted his resignation two days before) and made a drastic decision. Since the start of Lewis' three-day week, the fund had been taking in $5,000,000 a month and spending $8,000,000. Cut further by the halt of payments from the Southern operators, the fund had dwindled away to a bare $14 million. There was no way out; except for emergency payments all pension and welfare benefits would...
...expense accounts were masterpieces; they listed such items as $635 for entertainment over a three-day period, $137 for two days' meals, and added up to $9,500 for three months. And though he had reported an average of $6,000 a year for the last five years on his income-tax returns, the Senate subcommittee discovered that he had deposited $119,608.61 in three banks...
That might be an answer to the Senators, but the House wasn't listening. Since the Senate wouldn't agree to a formal adjournment, the House had another out: it would simply start a series of three-day recesses, which require no Senate approval. For the next four weeks. Speaker Sam Rayburn announced, only a corporal's guard would need to stay in town-someone to act as Speaker, a functionary to parade the mace (which is the symbol of House authority), and someone to move adjournment every day after the journal has been approved...
Before the takeover, Editor Gould's editorials had sniped consistently at the tottering Nationalist regime, babbled confidently over the prospects of Communist rule. Now, Gould's Chinese workers were demanding wages for July despite the fact that Gould had stopped publishing in June. After a three-day lock-in, Gould finally gave up; he would scrape up the money somewhere...