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...Chase Continues. Tough Woodruff Randolph, president of the A.F.L. International Typographical Union, got a thumping vote of confidence in his strike-ridden battle with publishers (TIME, Sept. 1). In the heaviest vote (about 70,000) ever cast in an I.T.U. election, Randolph's "progressive" ticket won a 3-to-2 victory over the "independent" party headed by John R. Evans of Washington. Said Secretary-Treasurer Don Hurd: the vote was "not merely re-election of the incumbents, but is a general membership affirmation of the policies they pursued." That was notice to publishers not to throw away their Vari...
Fortnight ago the I.T.U. and the dailies had come to a tentative agreement. The publishers agreed to boost wages to $99 a week for day work, highest I.T.U. wages in the U.S. To play safe, the papers kept their VariType crews working. Then Woodruff Randolph, I.T.U. president, demanded that the I.T.U. be granted jurisdiction over VariType operators. This would make it impossible for the papers to put out a VariType issue if the printers struck. The papers flatly refused. They had no intention of giving up the first method yet found to counter printers' strikes...
...Prodigious John Woodruff, overtaking a pack of puny rivals in four giraffe strides to win the 800-meter...
Both Becker and Woodruff were War Service applicants for the scholarship...
...Harvard students were among the winners of Rhodes Scholarships for the coming year, it was announced last night by Dr. Frank Aydelotte, American Secretary to the Rhodes trustees . They are Arthur W. J. Becker '48 and Truman O. Woodruff...