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...last week's lull from strikes, many an American hoped that now was the time when smart unionists would do some soul-searching and long-range planning for peace. Their hopes were vain...
...approached for Allied invasion, Britain and the U.S. looked in vain to Mihailovich for a unified resistance. By 1944, wrote British former liaison officer Fitzroy MacLean last week, Tito "was carrying out a widespread and effective resistance to the Germans, and Mihailovich, however good his intentions, was not. In those days the military effectiveness of our allies was a far more important consideration than their political complexion...
...Finally, it is appropriate to ask what remedy Mr. Murray proposes for the demonstrated evils with which Congress has tried to deal. One may search his letter in vain. . . . His sole contribution is the request that the Case bill be vetoed, and the unions thereby be left free to pursue in future the course they have in the recent past...
Geist's Allis-Chalmers also had a long record of labor disputes. In the early days of the war, its plants were shut for over three months while the Army waited in vain for millions of dollars of turbines and gun parts. For the past four months, 60,000 employes in seven Allis-Chalmers plants have been in & out. The present dispute, which has shut the plants at West Allis and La Crosse, involves no wage issue. The issues: seniority, employment practices, union security...
...suspicion of Moscow control will not down, nor will the French fear of a Communist police state on the Russian model. In vain (to date) Thorez has cried: "Different countries, different methods...