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...when he published a factual, informative, detached book, American Labor, that summed up labor's story. There is nothing detached about Labor's Civil War. Like some Mencken of the proletariat, heaving adjectives at labor's sacred cows, Mr. Harris sustains a note of exasperation, ridicule, hell-and-damnation for 298 pages to show how American unions are moving toward "a double suicide of majestic stupidity...
...already had signs of another housing shortage. Worst shortages were at and near shipyards (Bremerton. Wash.; Norfolk, Va.; Newport, R. I.; Mare Island. Calif., etc.) where workers flocked by thousands. At Bremerton (Puget Sound Navy Yard), State patrolmen, harried by reports of "stolen" and abandoned cars, wearily retorted: "Hell, there's guys living in them-Navy yard workers...
...cellars, branched out on its job, then flew back by the same route. Because many planes which had not found or had been driven away from their objectives jettisoned their bombs at random in this lane, and because there were plenty of targets there anyhow, it was dubbed Hell's Corridor...
...Marx Brothers bouncing around on one stage, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy trilling to one another near by. Warner Brothers pigeonholed their artistic aspirations by canceling Paul Muni's contract, concentrating on such slam-bang hell-raisers as Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, John Garfield...
...grey-haired, big-eared, balding Bill Donovan is a tough, free-swearing, ungrammatical labor leader in store clothes. When he thinks an argument has gone far enough, he closes it for keeps with the snapper: "And them are the facts! What the hell?" His prosperous Local 46 has around 15,000 members, over $90,000 in the till, closed-shop contracts with all but two of Chicago's 960 laundries. Some 90% of its members are women, about one-third are Negroes. In three years Bill Donovan has doubled their hourly wages. In that time there have been...