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...side was their claim that out of 650 employes only 206 voted for a C.I.O. union in a plant election and, although over a third of the plant's employes did not vote, the union was certified as bargaining agent. When a strike was called during contract negotiations, said the company, only about 150 men walked out. When the management advertised for new workers, some 2,500 applied...
...with the management's attitude in the negotiation. The union, claiming 550 strikers, accused the management of not bargaining in good faith, laying off a union delegate, locking out the union negotiating committee. The strike was called off when the management and the union agreed to continue contract negotiations. For days union and company wrangled...
...another strike was called. The Mediation Board put strong pressure on the company directly and indirectly (the Army even threatened to take away the company's contract). Although only a minority of the workers had struck, New Jersey police could not give the plant adequate protection and the police finally shut off the streets so that the workers could not reach the plant. Finally the plant, which now has some 800 employes, of whom only 150 had originally gone on strike, was picketed by 3,000 shouting pickets...
...week's end the strike was called off when the company agreed to take back all workers and continue contract negotiations. But another strike soon threatened: the union said that, while its men were given jobs, some machinists were put to scrubbing floors...
Died. Mme. Georgette Leblanc, 66, longtime intimate and "inspiration" of Belgian poet Maurice Maeterlinck; after a year's illness; in Le Cannet, France. In 1893, entranced by Maeterlinck's poetic mysticism, which she discovered after a chance reading of his essay on Emerson, she tore up her contract with the Opera Comique, left Paris for Brussels "to become the wife of the great Maeterlinck." Wearing on her forehead a blue diamond which she said was a symbol of happiness, Mme. Leblanc met Maeterlinck at a supper party, lived with him for more than 20 years, and maintained...