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...N.F.T.W., which had started without sufficient strength, money or appreciation of the company's ability to keep the phones going, was desperately sending up trial balloons. It would be glad to take a $6-a-week wage boost and arbitrate everything else. Picket-line tension grew. In Detroit two strikers were injured and 22 arrested after a battle with police and nonstrikers reporting for work. In Milwaukee, one fun-loving picket paraded tauntingly in a baby buggy as a miserly "Ma Bell...
Working people-the backbone of Labor's support-would be hurt most by the tobacco boost.† A man with a ?5 weekly wage (about one-fifth of British wage earners get less) would have to spend about one-fourth of his pay to smoke one package of cigarets...
Town & Country made money at it: frozen at 25,000 during the war, it doubled its circulation last year, cleared almost $500,000. Editor Bull wanted to plow the money back, give raises to some underpaid staffers and boost his authors' payments. He also asked an end to the stepchild treatment that withheld paper and press time from Town & Country in favor of other Hearst magazines. Instead, his bosses threatened to give Town & Country a mixed-salad section of architecture, interior and exterior (cosmetics) decorating. Now they are free to do it, and Harry Bull is free to write...
Answer to Come. But to many consumers this policy makes little sense. They pay the bill twice, once through high prices and again in taxes for their support. Why not let prices drop to parity before beginning to support them? Lower prices would boost consumption, and the surpluses would probably soon be gobbled up. The Department has said no. But the Government cannot expect to get off cheaply in the future...
WASHINGTON, April 25-Hopes for settling the cross-country telephone strike rose tonight as the union cut its pay boost demand in half from $12 to $6 a week and a separate settlement was reached for the State of Maryland...