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...five-man strike committee last week demanded a wage boost from $12 to $20 a month, an increase in clothing allowances from $40 to $48 a year. The boss said no. When the committee insisted that the boss could well afford the increase, the boss called the cops, had the committeemen ejected from the premises. Nobody invoked the Wagner Act. The committeemen were monks, the boss was the abbott of the ancient Coptic Christian monastery of Moharrak, 250 miles south of Cairo...
Daveron's repugnance to mules had a foundation that was laid in 1942. That was the year the U.S. Rubber Development Corp., desperately trying to boost Amazonian rubber production for war, decided that the seringueiros (rubber workers) needed mules for jungle transportation, and bought 1,800 of them in Sao Paulo State, in southern Brazil. But moving them 3,500 miles northwest (as the mule files) turned out to be the biggest part of the problem. An ex-canned-goods salesman, abetted by a lottery-ticket salesman and a former bus driver, gave up the job after losing more...
William F. Carroll, Government mediator and Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge, had tried hard to reconcile the miners' demands ($1.40 more a day) with the operators' offer of $1 a day, contingent on increased production. Mediator Carroll recommended a pay boost of $1.40 a day, plus more production. The extra 40?, he said, must come from an increased Government subsidy since a higher coal price would "interfere most gravely with effective transition to a peacetime economy." But the miners thumbed down the recommendation as a "mere incentive bonus...
...Interisland shipping has been slowly reconstructed, although beef from southernmost Mindanao is still being flown to Manila because of the lack of refrigerator ships. A thousand surplus tractors have helped boost carabao-geared farm production; the Filipinos are now nearly self-sufficient in food. There is no threat of cholera, which daily kills scores in Bangkok ; no plague, which continually ravishes part of China. Three million children, compared to a prewar two million, are back in school. Driving through Mindanao, I was amazed at the number of schools. Communal problems there are small. Said one Mohammedan datu (chieftain...