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...into five groups. He fired Frank Winn, U.A.W.'s able press agent. He fired an organizer who called a strike vote in a General Motors plant. By this time it was apparent that President Martin's long-awaited purge was in full flower. Also fired at one crack were more than a dozen other organizers including such potent veterans of last spring's strikes as Robert Kanter and Victor Reuther, brother of Walter Reuther. leader of the strong Detroit West Side local...
...Henderson showed the pictures, filled with scenes of how to got up a mountain while holding on to a tiny crack in a vertical cliff and letting one's feet dangle out over thousands of foot of open space...
Another way to get up, shown in the pictures, is to grab the crack with one's hands, brace with the feet just below the crack, and move if you can. Then when you get to a vertical niche, you just go right...
With regard to the "Whop, Crack, Smash" article, I heartily agree with Mr. de Lany...
While other popular explanations of the week ranged from a theory that the market crack was another 1906 "rich man's panic" to the notion that it was a "capital strike" against the New Deal, one fact became increasingly clear: whether or not pessimism over fall business prospects was at the root of the market's drop, the market's drop had certainly dragged down fall business prospects...