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...minefield of the week, voting to reject demands for a general wage increase for 220,000 workers in eight West Coast aircraft plants. But the margin of success was narrow (the vote was 7-to-5). Thus far the Board had not jettisoned its heavy cargo, the wage-raise yardstick (15% increases to cover the rise in living costs to May 1942), but all around the angry waters of inflation were lashed ever higher by labor's big winds...
Toward The Rocks. The biggest reef ahead was John L. Lewis. This week his 500,000 bituminous miners began negotiations for their $2-a-day wage increase-which is far & away beyond the 15%-raise yardstick. The shaky aircraft decision was plain warning to John Lewis of what his miners may expect. Last week, Lewis said...
With smooth-running efficiency Selective Service machinery had moved the first 5,000,000 men into uniform. But fortnight ago, SSS hit one of the worst snarls in military conscription since the U.S. entered World War II: 1) Manpower Czar Paul McNutt switched the yardstick for deferment from dependency to essentiality; 2) local draft boards, tussling with changing classifications and categories, were unable to keep pace with the demand for Army & Navy manpower...
...schedules are now being checked by the committee for conformation to this yardstick, and after conferences with the opposing colleges, the revised schedules should be released by the end of the week...
Attaching little importance to himself as "just a pretty good longshoreman," Bridges vigorously attacked what he termed the "Biddle yardstick for arbitrarily measuring how good a patriot a man is." He appealed directly to the heterogenous Harvard-Radcliffe-Cambridge audience for support of the nation's labor leaders, who he claimed are up to their necks in the war effort, against "sniping attacks" from short-sighted anti-laborites...