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Leader of the walkout was Amos Ignacio, a member of the territorial legislature and head of the I.L.W.U.'s Hawaiian division of sugar workers. Said he: "We've been smeared enough with Red paint. We have waited for a long time for a denial of Communistic activities by some of our biggest union bosses and we are sick of waiting. . . . We know there are Communists in the union...
...situation being what it is, she prefers to remain ... in preference to returning to ... the potluck which city life offers." In Los Angeles, John Wilson, who said his wife walked out on him two hours after the wedding, finally got around to suing for divorce, 47 years after her walkout...
...purely economic solutions can be effected through prudent government alone, but when M. Schuman intends to crush the present widespread strikes, he must deal with unions that are controlled by a Communist party opposed to any U. S.-dictated recovery. Maurice Thorez has precipitated a 1,500,000 man walkout for higher wages in the hope that either an expanded currency or low production will push inflation to the bursting point. Schuman favors a general wage increase of $32 per month. Unless this much needed salary boost can be instituted without the evil of correspondingly higher prices, the government will...
...Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, told how the Reds had first tried to put a crimp in World-Girdler* Mickey, the traveling salesman of the U.S. When the Disney studios went on strike in 1937, he said, Labor Leader Herbert Sorrell admitted that Communist money had financed the walkout...
...Fowler McCormick has not had too much luck with Labor. An 80-day strike last year by the Redlined Farm Equipment and Metal Workers' Union (C.I.O.) shut down eleven of the company's 22 U.S. plants. Only this week 8,000 Harvester workers ended a four-day walkout over the discharge of three men. Nevertheless, by profit-sharing and pension plans, McCormick eventually hopes to bring permanent peace...