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Harry Bridges' long nose was caught in a wringer last week. He had shut down the West Coast waterfront for more than 45 days. He had choked off business in faraway Hawaii, smothered the West Coast's trade with Alaska, had tied up 222 of the coast's 375 ships, costing shippers and shipowners millions of dollars a day. The strike was another dramatic show of power by U.S. labor's second most recalcitrant leader (after John Lewis). But last week Harry Bridges was hollering for help...
...Bridges. But Murray sent Alan Haywood, national director of C.I.O. organizing, and R. J. Thomas, ex-boss of the autoworkers, to San Francisco. Their job was to intercede as agents of the C.I.O., get the owners to renew their offer. This week the Bridges nose was still in the wringer. Haywood returned to Washington, declaring: "The employers are adamant. They will not deal with Harry Bridges...
...eliminating special "blooming" mills (where steel is rolled in clothes-wringer-like machines) and the conveyer tables to feed them, continuous casting will make a drastic cut in the cost of every ton of steel produced. Eventually, it may also decentralize the industry, giving each region its own steel mills, for the machines are relatively cheap to build, and easy to house...
...They get a lot of belated advice from their lawyer friend (Melvyn Douglas), and they go into a huddle with an architect (Reginald Denny) who is willing to design practically anything-at a price. Before their homing instinct comes to roost at last they have been put through the wringer by practically every type of swindler involved in, or parasitic upon, the building trades. Blandings saves his neglected job by the skin of his teeth; and for a time even his marriage seems to be headed for the rocks...
Reinhold Niebuhr's new orthodoxy is the oldtime religion put through the intellectual wringer. It is a re-examination of orthodoxy for an age dominated by such trends as rationalism, liberalism, Marxism, fascism, idealism and the idea of progress...