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...board stretched its famed 15% Little Steel formula still further, granted a 5½?-an-hour pay boost, maintenance of membership and checkoff to 250,000 U.S. Steel Corp. workers. But the eight board members representing labor, Government and the public stretched the formula almost to the breaking point when they made the raise retroactive to Feb. 15, ignored a C.I.O.-U.S. Steel fixed-wage contract running through Aug. 9. The four employer members screamed murder, said the majority had destroyed the sanctity of a contract, predicted the decision would "rise to plague" them...
...okayed a wage boost for 400 employes in 13 St. Louis machine shops, then ordered all workers earning over $1 an hour to invest "at least 10%" of their pay in war bonds. This is not as revolutionary as it sounds: both labor and management had agreed to the scheme. But it may set a precedent for "voluntary" forced savings, and it may give unions a lever to pry wages still higher on the ground that the raise would buy war bonds, hence would not be inflationary...
...said Mauricio Nabuco, Secretary-general of the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, at last January's Rio conference. Last week Pan-American unity got its biggest tangible boost in World War II when Brazil became the first South American country formally to declare war on Germany and Italy.* (Japan having committed no aggression against Brazil, was omitted from the declaration...
Cheyfitz and his pals have enough disunity already, could hardly stand more. Besides scrapping with Alcoa and WLB (partly over a $1-a-day wage boost), the Die Casting local is fighting counter-organization drives by the powerful Aluminum Workers of America (which already controls nine Alcoa plants), and John L. Lewis' District 50 division of the United Mine Workers (which controls Alcoa's Buffalo plant). Both would like to get a pipeline into Cheyfitz' fat 7,000-man dues pot. Thus the Die Casters' "no-strike" edict was partly prompted by a desire to keep...
Through this drive the War service Committee is aiming to help both industry through an accumulation of actual material, and to boost morale in the armed forces by providing diversion for the soldiers and sailors through phonograph records and musical instruments. Contribution to the drive will also benefit students by making their living quarters more livable...