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...labor shortage in the copper mines (TIME, Aug. 3) was so critical last week that the War Labor Board finally went way out of its way to do something about it, promised to consider 37 separate wage-boost pleas forthwith on "an industrywide basis," in order to keep copper miners from drifting away to higher-paid work faster than they can be replaced...
...boost war bond sales, Chicago's 40-year-old Belden Manufacturing Co. (insulated wire, etc.) offers to pay its dividends in war savings stamps, beginning with a 37½? payment voted last week for Sept...
With total passenger miles running 54% over a year ago and many a train full up, the southern railroads-which pioneered travel-building lower fares-decided they might as well charge as much as other U.S. carriers. Last week they got ICC permission to boost their fares from 1.65? a mile to 2.2?, the national rate...
...Last April the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that copper, lead and zinc smelting and refining workers averaged $35.18 a week while metal miners averaged $37.28. This compares with $40.22 for steel workers (before their recent wage boost), $45.94 for aircraft workers and $53.30 for shipbuilders...
...more for its 157,000 Little Steel workers. A WLB fact-finding panel, considering only the simpler arithmetic of the demand, found that the companies could afford it: they are so busy now with war orders that all but $2,850,000 of the $47,500,000 annual boost would have come out of excess-profits taxes...