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...WALKOUT CALLED IN THE UNION...
...same distressed timbre were howling around the head of victorious Governor Merriam. The army of itinerant jobless from other states, first attracted to California by EPIC's glittering promises, had mounted to 75,000. Agitator Harry Bridges, the tough little Australian who promoted the San Francisco general walkout, was busy agitating longshoremen's strikes. Closer to home, Opposition legislators were bent on starting a move to have Governor Merriam recalled as soon as the six months' legal period of grace had elapsed following his inauguration. But the biggest headache of all for Governor Merriam was the problem...
...York taxicab union. Playwright Odets uses the stage as a rostrum for union officials and committeemen. Question before the house is whether to call a taxi strike. It soon becomes plain that the union bosses have sold out the cabdrivers to the fleet owners, are trying to prevent a walkout. But a militant section, led by one Lefty, pleads for action. Lefty seems to have been delayed, and while awaiting his arrival there are a series of ingenious, brief flashbacks, indicating the misery of the hackmen's conditions. When it turns out that Lefty has been murdered, the Group...
...last week's end was the darkling sky over the U. S. textile world as it emerged after its three-week strike. In the South many a mill owner still kept his heart and door closed to returning strikers and there were faint rumblings of a new walkout. But in Washington three tried & trusted mediators went soberly to work on the strike's cause and consequence with bright prospects of success...
...petitioned to continue work. At Charlotte, N. C., union leaders held what amounted to an old-fashioned Southern camp-meeting, with mighty prayers for success. In Paterson, N. J., silk textile workers announced that they would strike in spite of the fact that their contract with manufacturers forbids a walkout without first consulting the Industry's Industrial Relations Board...