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...tough or get out of U. A. W. A. A treasury depleted by unemployment and unpaid dues; a new outbreak of outlaw strikes in General Motors, several parts plants; the tactical weaknesses inherent for any union in a period of widespread layoffs; substantial concessions to management in contract renewals; a recent and violent intra-union factional flareup-all this impelled Mr. Martin to seek out unionism's new Great Father in Washington...
...September 1935 that United's Patterson went to competitors with his appeal: "United we fly, divided we los.e money." Six months later United, Transcontinental & Western Air, American, Eastern and Pan American signed a contract, crux of which was that for 18 months none of them would invest in any four-motored air transport between the gross weights of 43,500 lb. and 68,500 lb., other than DC-4. These lines advanced Douglas comparatively little for the experiment. Nine-tenths of the expenses, which DC-4 will have to pay back by selling itself,* have come...
...manage private property must be conceded and safeguarded. Working people must be accorded the right to organize and bargain collectively. . . . Labor and capital can cooperate. . . " Thus the cagey councilmen affirmed a co-operative policy whereby A.F. of L. already had diddled C.I.O. out of many a bargaining contract, has also caused NLRB to declare in several cases that Federation-employer cooperation was in fact collusion intended to discourage workers' affiliations with more militant C.I.O. unions...
...stars themselves had ready answers. Actress Hepburn last week terminated the RKO Radio contract that had brought her from $75,000 to $100,000 a picture and was considering five better offers "They say I'm a has-been," scoffed she. "If I weren't laughing so hard, I might cry. . . ." Joan Crawford had just signed a new five-year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at a figure reported to be $1,500,000. "Boxoffice poison?" chirruped Actress Crawford...
...kitchen workers and waitresses will also cast their ballots on the unionization question but they have already signed a contract with the University for sole bargaining rights and are conceded an 85 percent majority...