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Only issue was Lewis' demand for a union-shop contract in the captive coal mines owned & operated by the country's biggest steel companies. Substantially 90% of the total annual production of bituminous coal in the U.S. was under union-shop contracts. Even an estimated 84% of captive-mine workers who were eligible to join Lewis' union had done so. Some mines were organized 100%. Lewis could not understand why the captive-mine owners balked at a union shop. Actually, Mr. Lewis knew very well why they would not sign up. Steel had fought the union shop...
Before taking off, Ickes criticized a contract Jesse Jones had negotiated with Aluminum Co. of America for operating three Government-owned aluminum plants, urged that the contract never be signed. It was signed anyway (TIME, Sept. 1). Ickes, in a log cabin 3,000 miles from Washington, sat down and wrote his letter...
...faced with the dilemma of being a party to this transaction which I regard as prejudicial to the interests of the United States. . . . Your refusal even to let me know what terms were under, consideration . . . was for the precise purpose of forcing my hand into the signing of a contract that would not be in the public interest. ... Damnable contract...
Meanwhile the Defense Committee, which also had had its doubts about the Alcoa contract, questioned Alcoa's Vice President Irving W. Wilson, Counsel Oscar R. Ewing, Chief Engineer Thomas D. Jolly in an effort to find something to damn. The Alcoans testified that they construed the contract to give the Government every right the committee thought the Government should have: final word on plant sites and specifications, permission to inspect Alcoa's own plants and cost figures for comparison with the Government-owned operations, etc. To criticisms that the contract set no starting dates, they replied that...
With visions of a Hollywood contract dangling before them, members of the Freshman and Varsity crew squads did their stuff in front of the grinding machine of a Fox Movietone cameraman on the float of Newel boathouse and up and down the river...