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...security" (by which a company agrees to nurture, sometimes encourage, union membership). In only one instance has it recommended a closed shop: the Bethlehem Shipbuilding case. Its justification: the other 38 shipbuilding firms on the West Coast had already agreed to the closed shop provision of an OPM master contract. In every instance, except one, industrialist members of the panel sitting on the case were in full accord. The exception: Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock...
...majority of its panel held then that Federal, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, should concede maintenance of membership so that union leaders would have a stabilized and disciplined organization and thus carry out their difficult part of the contract, a two-year pledge of no strikes...
...adjure George Brent not to go around explaining why he wouldn't marry bouncy Ann Sheridan. Promptly CBS censors decided the items were on the dubious side, suggested he toss them out of his script. Thereupon Fidler asked his sponsor, the Tayton Co. (cosmetics), to cancel his contract so that he could betake himself to the more liberal mikes of Mutual...
Three months after it caught the devil from the Senate Defense Committee on the nation's aluminum shortage, OPM finally had some definite progress to point to last week. Drawn up was a contract under which Aluminum Co. of America will build three Government-owned plants which will produce 340,000,000 lb. of aluminum ingots a year, thus increase present U.S. capacity (built and abuilding...
...will need 2,800,000,000 lb. of alumina (in addition to large amounts used raw by chemical and abrasives industries). With Alcoa's new alumina plant, U.S. capacity will be something over 2,000,000,000 lb. a year. About to be signed with Reynolds is a contract for another alumina plant which will add 200,000,000 lb. To make up part of the remaining alumina deficit, OPM recommended last week that still another 600,000,000 lb. of Government-owned capacity be added to Alcoa's alumina facilities in Arkansas...