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...read it. I'll laugh if it kills me. I'd like, however, to recommend the Book of Revelation to Reader Gibeaut as a humorous story if TIME is funny. How he must laugh over the subtle humor in the small print in an insurance contract...
Through the great bank of labor storm clouds over the U.S. last week appeared signs of sunlight. But first the thunderheads grew blacker. Near Milwaukee, at Allis-Chalmers, were riots and disorder. Failure of mine operators and workers to agree on a new contract shut down most of the country's soft-coal mines, resulted in death to five men in bloody Harlan County, Ky. Negotiations between C.I.O. and U.S. Steel reached an impasse and union leaders set the date for a walkout. The far-reaching Ford strike (see p. 21) made things seem even worse...
Next day from Pittsburgh came word that U.S. Steel and C.I.O. had decided to try again. Whatever agreement was reached was to be retroactive to April 1. Half-hour before the new truce was made known, Ernest T. Weir, head of National Steel (which has no C.I.O. contract), granted employes a wage increase of 10?an hour. A 10? increase was what C.I.O. was demanding from U.S. Steel...
...Guildsmen on the New York Times who petitioned the Labor Board to recognize the same rival A.F. of L. union as their bargaining agent for Times editorial workers. Difference is that the New York Times does not have a "Guild Shop," whereas the Mirror is now negotiating a union contract which will include such a clause. If it is signed, the Guild contract will bind the Mirror management, "upon formal notice from the Guild," to fire employes for the following reasons: 1) if they do not join the Guild within three months after being hired; 2) if they fall...
...Cocoanut Grove. The Grove fired him for disappearing on long weekends to Palm Springs and Agua Caliente, and Mack Sennett hired him to act in some movie shorts. Prohibition booze gave him laryngitis which muffled his voice to a whisper, and he received a $3,000-a-week radio contract. Eddie Lang, his best friend and accompanist, died, and Bing wound up making pictures for Paramount. He seemed listless, but his income always increased...