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...rise more than the price of Northern coal and the South would lose part of its coal market to the North. Aside from the debatable question of whether the Southern wage differential is justified, the obvious fact was that the Southern operators were the only parties to the proposed contract who were going to be worse off instead of better off by signing it. So the Southerners bolted the conference, and last week Secretary of Labor Perkins finally certified the dispute to the Mediation Board...
Sadly Burdened. As Madam Perkins certified another major dispute to the board, the Administration prayed for better luck. For two months General Motors and the C.I.O. Auto Workers had been negotiating a new contract. Differences narrowed down to union demands for a 10? wage boost and a closed shop; G.M. made a counter-offer of a wage rise, but to a closed shop answered flatly, No. Union leaders finally decided to strike. Last week Madam Perkins tossed this new hot potato over to the board. What the board could do with it was any man's guess. A good...
...Arnold be impressed, because the big end of the Air Corps's engine purchases for pursuit airplanes is in liquid-cooled power plants of half the Napier Sabre's power. For General Motors' Allisons the Army has laid out $159,500,000, and it has contracted for $62,448,000 of Rolls-Royce Merlins to be built by Packard. While waiting for General Arnold to report, Air Corpsmen could find comfort in another fact: whatever was done about liquid-cooled engine buying, it would soon be getting a lot more power in a new batch of pursuit...
While these things happened, Packard went ahead tooling for its Rolls-Royce contract, expected to go into production by September. From its plant at Indianapolis, Allison was in smooth production (25 a day). General Motors had just adopted a new process for making Allison crankshafts 20-30% stronger than before. Still under test was Allison's new engine that may still match Britain's superpowered, engines: a 24-cylinder power plant (built in a W, not an H like the Napier), designed to equal the Sabre's power...
This was the result of negotiations terminated on March 24 by Aldrich Durant '02, business manager of the University, Joseph Stefani, secretary-treasurer of the Cooks' and Pastry Cooks' Union, and Eva Rankin of the Waitresses' Union. According to that contract, the University agreed to dismiss all employee-union members whose unpaid dues up to twelve dollars were not paid before April...