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...months ago, when the unions had first made their wage demands, they would probably have accepted. But not now, with the 15? boost for West Coast lumbermen as a spur. Snapped union strike director Charles Millard: "[The seizure] contains the fascist principle of forced labor...
...only major report on clothiers so far concerned J. Press, who attributed its $15 boost as due to increased cost of fabrics although the trade at large had not expected upped wool prices to appear in the finished product so soon...
...Canada may also help fuel the U.S. inflation she fears. Her biggest exports are lumber, wood products and paper-and the U.S. buys most of them. If Canadian lumber and papermen boost prices in U.S. dollars in order to maintain their profit margins, then U.S. manufacturers may have to boost prices in their turn, and there will be more outside inflation pressuring Canada...
...durable goods, wanted to give no aid to the return of OPA. But bituminous coal prices had gone up an average of 40½? a ton a fortnight ago as part of the coal strike settlement. Ore prices edged up. So did pig iron. In Birmingham, two plants boosted prices $3 a ton. Scrap dealers were tightly hanging on to their scrap for the expected big boost and an acute shortage was in the making. The pattern of price increases among suppliers was plain; Pittsburgh gossiped that certain types of steel would soon rise anywhere from...
...doubled. Zinc went up 1¼? to 9½? a pound. Copper, tied in with OPA subsidies, waited on Washington developments. But the best guess was that low-cost copper producers would continue to sell at the OPA ceiling of 14⅜? a pound. High-cost producers would probably boost their price...