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Unorganized employees at the chemical laboratories and at the Arnold Arboretum will vote Thursday on representation by the local, and 236 University janitors who now belong to the HUERA will vote on June 18. The local has also petitioned for elections among members of the Groundsmen's and Truckmen's Associations...
Safe Deposit. In Peoria, Ill., at the depth of the coal strike, truckmen delivering a load of precious coal to the William H. Friedrick house aimed at what they thought was the cellar chute, learned too late that they had dumped it all into an abandoned cistern...
...Teamsters Union. Mr. Papa was glad to tell the committee just how he controlled the $300 million-a-year business. His weapon, of course, was union contracts, which he writes himself. These contracts give him the power to force any food dealer out of business by merely withdrawing his truckmen...
...wage of a London trucker: about $22 a week*). Even the Government's delayed and reluctant decision to use troops to move food (most Londoners were down to half-rations of meat and vegetables and some were down to no rations at all) failed to move the striking truckmen. But "Operation Eatables" (the soldiers' name for their assignment to trucks and markets) did move the men & women who handle London's food. When the troops appeared, they walked off their jobs. So, eventually, did thousands of T.G.W.U. dock workers in resentment against the use of "blacklegs [strikebreakers...
...which would give it powers over basic property (the land) unparalleled by those of any sovereign government outside of Russia. At the same time, the Labor Government faced its first important crisis as employer (instead of champion) of labor-a week-old truck strike wildcatted by 21,000 London truckmen against the wishes of the union leaders. As critical food distribution was paralyzed, the Government considered moving the trucks with troops, then rejected the idea. At week's end, it faced the facts, put 8,000 soldiers & sailors on the trucks or guarding them. Promptly thousands of workers...