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...utilizing all available shipways. Companies were accused of grabbing orders just to keep a comfortable backlog. Labor was lambasted for demanding double time for holiday work, for refusing to work ten-hour shifts. (Last week 1,000 workers at Richmond [Calif.] shipyards perversely staged a one-day walkout because they wanted ten-hour shifts instead of eight-hour...
...jubilantly announced that only one strike of "primary significance" was delaying the defense program: a walkout of 90 C.I.O. autoworkers at the Rausch Nut & Manufacturing Co. (nuts & bolts for airplanes...
...Labor Leader Lewis it was a big and gratifyingly noisy success. To the U.S. it was time wasted that could never be bought back. To the miners themselves it was another weary walkout. Before a truce came last week to the sooty soft-coal hills of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, the strike ordained by John L. Lewis had cost some 200,000 miners a week's wages, had cost the defense program at Carnegie-Illinois* some 30,000 tons of steel (enough for 3,000 light tanks or 30 destroyers...
WASIUNGTON (UP) -- Congressional action "at the earliest possible moment" on anti-strike legislation was promised by House Speaker Sam Rayburn, D., Texas, today as legislators bitterly denounced mine chieftain John L. Lewis for calling a walkout in the captive coal mines...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt's zero-hour efforts to avert a walkout of 53,000 captive coal miners on Monday appeared to have failed tonight as conferences between steel executives and mine leaders collapsed with no settlement of their union shop controversy...