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...Argument? In Dillon, S.C., Harmon Herring, fresh from a touch-&-go wrestling match with a wildcat (which he finally throttled), announced authoritatively that no man can lick his weight in wildcats...
Already Labor's Minister of Fuel and Power, Emanuel Shinwell, onetime tailor, speaking for the new mine boss, the Government, had warned of "drastic action" against wildcat strikes. Said he to Scotland's pitmen: "Nationalization is not intended primarily to benefit the miner. There is the coal consumer to be considered, the interests of the nation, our export trade and all that...
More pertinent was the argument that labor should be paid more in accordance with its increased productivity. If labor would guarantee more productiveness, particularly by offering guarantees against wildcat strikes, featherbedding, etc., then higher wages would be well justified...
...union's Richard Leonard, to the surprise of almost everybody, answered Ford's demand for security against wildcat strikes (TIME, Nov. 26) with a counterproposal: any union work-stopper would be fined $3 a day ($5 for a second offense), provided similar penalties were imposed on company chieftains who deliberately provoked a stoppage...
Long Island's Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. performed the neatest reconversion trick of the week. It went into production of a brand-new commercial product: an aluminum canoe. Designed by President Leroy Grumman, who turned out the Navy's Wildcat and Hellcat fighter planes, the canoe weighs one-half to two-thirds as much as wooden canoes. A 13-footer weighs only 38 pounds, yet the thin skin is tough enough to deflect anything up to a bullet. When capsized, the canoe automatically rights itself in the water with the help of air tanks...