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...Ford, "are the worst thing that ever struck the earth." They and their unions have never yet struck him hard. And it must have appeared to him last week that being the operator of an organized plant is no guarantee of industrial tranquillity. U. S. Steel, operating under a contract with C. I. O., was in danger of having that contract ended...
Signed for a two-year contract with the Bell Syndicate, Pundit Thompson transfers her column to the arch-New Deal New York Post, after five years with the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune.* Said Columnist Thompson, of her showdown with the Herald Tribune: "We just agreed to disagree. I like the Herald Tribune and we've had pleasant relations. I think everyone understands there was a difference of opinion. ... It goes back to the campaign, so what's the use of talking about it now?" Herald Tribune men doubted that any syndicate could better its record...
...last June the Seattle Star, their largest paper, had lost all but one department-store ad contract. Sanders, who still owned 15% of Star stock, squawked deafeningly. The boys tried to sell the Star, found no buyers...
Coal has been No. 1 horrible example of industrial overcapacity since 1920. Yet coal last week was hard to get. The reason is political: this week John L. Lewis, back from Florida, began negotiating with the mine operators for a new contract. Question before the operators was whether the Guffey-Vinson Act, which gives them a price compensation for all proved cost increases above 2? a ton, would be renewed by Congress before it expires April 26. If the Act is not renewed in time, a strike is certain; even if it is, Lewis may pull a strike anyway...
...over-lush profits. Two days later the Post led a press crusade for a Royal Commission investigation. The Government denounced the article as "scurrilous and irresponsible." But two and a half years later, with Canada at war, the Winnipeg Free Press broke the story that the old Bren gun contract had been canceled and relet on a management-fee basis. The Post loudly recalled that it had been right and the Government wrong. Thereafter it constituted itself No. 1 unofficial critic of Canada's fumbling war effort...