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Lewis has been fighting for a union-shop contract in the captive mines. The steel companies had not been parties to the Appalachian agreement (which provided for a union shop), though many another captive-mine operator had signed, along with the commercial miners in the Appalachian district. Lewis threatened to strike the steel companies' mines a month ago. At the request of the National Defense Mediation Board, he agreed to a 30-day truce while the board tried to work out a formula for peace...
...first real chance came with the passage of the Wagner Act. Last summer John Lewis, head of U.M.W., got Harlan County operators to go along with the rest of the operators in the Southern Appalachian Association in agreeing to U.M.W. terms. Last week, with the signing of a contract which not only permitted but required some 12,000 miners in the district to join Bill Turnblazer's and John Lewis' union, victory was sealed. Observers hoped that peace, not just a truce, had come to Harlan County...
...Ford found that he had agreed with his adversary too quickly. A.F. of L. complained that he had had no right to make a union-shop contract for all his plants, since NLRB elections had been held only at River Rouge and Lincoln. The Labor Board thereupon ordered elections to be held at 14 small-parts plants in Michigan. A.F. of L., which claimed some members in the 14 plants, demanded that Ford meanwhile stop the check off, refund dues already collected...
...triple-ply ribbon for pioneer excellence in the crucial art of sub contracting has long been worn by instrument-making Sperry Corp., which has been at it since 1936. Of Sperry's $250,000,000 backlog, almost all defense orders, 50% (in man-hours) is farmed out to more than a thousand firms. Half of these companies and 35% of the man-hours represent pure subcontracting (as distinguished from normal purchases from vendors). This week Sperry President Thomas A. Morgan described Sperry's subcontracting methods, gave some pointers that Floyd Odium's Defense Contract Distribution Service might...
...union, which numbers many members among the employees, submitted a contract to the university early last month, proposing employee coverage by social security, unemployment insurance, a closed shop, the checkoff and seniority rights...