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Vital Threat. In Detroit, the wildcat strike at the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co. still kept 50,000 Ford workers from their jobs. One night last week the United Automobile Workers' President R. J. Thomas begged and pleaded with the un ruly strikers to go back to work. They drowned him out with boos. The Kelsey-Hayes workers had taken matters into their own hands; neither Thomas nor, apparently, any other top U.A.W. official could get them back...
Even the Ford Motor Co., which shut down its plants and laid off 50,000 workers rather than struggle with wildcat strikes, could see a silver lining. It had reconverted so fast and made so many cars that it might soon have had to set a price to get them off its hands. If it had, it would have laid itself wide-open to undercutting by all the other automakers. Now it could keep its plants closed while the rest caught up. It was a strategy which might appeal to the entire auto industry. If pressed hard enough, might...
...from landing craft on Peleliu in the Palau Islands. On Bloody Nose Ridge in caves which were the "incarnate evil of this war," the Japs made their last stand. In stifling heat at least one regiment of the ist took as high as 60% casualties. The 81st Infantry Division ("Wildcat") moved in to relieve them. In three weeks 1,038 of the ist had been killed or were missing, 4,650 wounded. But in less than four weeks of fighting 11,083 Japs lay dead on Peleliu and U.S. forces controlled the sea lanes to the Philippines...
...really clever cartoons, not contentious but just funny." (Apparently, the Journal had half expected the News to class-angle its pinups to the textile shortage.) The Journal's only real criticism was that the C.I.O.'s servicemen's edition seemed to be shy of news about wildcat strikes...
Shot in the Dark. In Monson, Me., Mrs. Aubury Williams, sleepless, silenced some yowling cats by firing a shot from her husband's revolver into the night, found in her backyard next morning a dead, full-grown wildcat, worth $15 bounty...