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...Communist-run strike at the North American Aviation plant in Inglewood, Calif, was scarcely broken when a C.I.O. union (of die casters) walked out of the Cleveland plant of Aluminum Co. of America. The move, following the pattern at Inglewood, was in defiance of a Mediation Board request to withhold strike action until the Board could intervene. Before the Board could even take its coat off, scarcely three hours after it had started to study the dispute, the Cleveland plant was strike-shut. And even after strike leaders reached an agreement with the Board next day (raising wages...
...have to compete for labor and materials with defense industries. Said he: "The enemies of democracy are developing hydro-electric resource and every waterway from Norway to the Dardanelles. Are we to allow this continent to be outmatched? . . . Your action on this project will either make available or withhold 2,200,000 horsepower of low-cost electric power for the joint defense of North America...
...obvious reasons, please withhold my name if this letter is printed...
...head of it he placed burly Leon Henderson, most dynamic and executive of the New Deal coterie. Into Henderson's hands he placed powers which include authority to fix priorities on all civilian supplies, to withhold supplies from offending industries, to use priorities on transportation, to fix and publish maximum price schedules-and to advise the President to commandeer plants which fail to cooperate...
...believe that it is God's divine purpose that His bountiful and all-sufficient gifts to us should be shared by all mankind, and that no nation or government should usurp or withhold from others a fair possession of His gifts...