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...front cover) On a long shiny table in Room 800 B of Washington's new Shoreham Hotel was signed one night last week the biggest, most significant work-&-wage contract in the history of U. S. labor. At one end of the table, his beefy bulk overflowing the chair, sat John Llewellyn Lewis, black-maned, bushy-browed president of United Mine Workers of America. At the other end was the thin, rigid figure of John De Lorma Adams Morrow, president of Pittsburgh Coal Co., who also heads the potent Northern Coal Control Association. Loudly and often had Operator Morrow...
...Hour. The Shoreham Contract's complete and unequivocal recognition of his union by the archfoes of organized labor marked the high point of Leader Lewis' career. Undoubtedly he, a hidebound Republican, could never have achieved this success if it had not been for a Democratic President whose New Deal had turned Industry and Labor topsy-turvy. But his foresight and energy in organizing coal miners under NRA, his ironhanded persistence in negotiating a union coal code with non-union operators, marked him as Labor's man-of-the-hour. A ragged broken band were United Mine Workers...
...Already under union contract are most of the mines in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Arkansas, Wyoming, Montana, Washington. Alabama and Western Kentucky operators still balk at union-ization...
According to the contract Irving Berlin and Walt Disney (whose income already amounts to $400,000 a year) will share the profits. But Disney will give half his share to his staff composer and conductor, Frank Churchill, a tall shy Rumford, Me., native who is responsible for all the tunes that Mickey Mouse and the Disney animals jig to. Disney gives him a story in terms of line drawings and film frames. Churchill works out a score which must have a definite number of beats for each of the frames so that the sound-track will synchronize perfectly with...
Married, Theodore Lightner, 40, contract bridge expert, partner of Ely Culbertson; and one Mary Patricia Smith, 25, bridge player; in London...