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...Johnston has been trying to set up a new wage board in order to persuade labor leaders to return to the mobilization set up. The old board, consisting of nine men, was disrupted when the three labor union representatives walked out. They objected to a wage ceiling approved by the public and industry representatives...
They were the men who had ordered a boycott of the Wage Stabilization Board a fortnight ago when three of their colleagues had been outvoted on a 10% wage-boost formula (TIME, Feb. 26). They were confronted by a stubborn, wrathful Wilson, who had already agreed that Stabilizer Eric Johnston should sign the formula and make ft law. For 2½ hours the men of the U.L.P.C. argued, mostly in billingsgate; a neutral observer described labor's bosses as behaving "like six-year-olds." Chiefly -and raucously-they demanded more say in the whole mobilization program. Particularly, they wanted...
...Ceiling. The bosses were not placated when Eric Johnston, turning his eyes heavenward, announced he would re-examine the wage formula, which had precipitated the whole fight. Its 10% ceiling was already shredded with exemptions for fringe benefits, incentive payments, adjustment of inequities. Johnston punched out a new hole. He exempted cost-of-living wage boosts so long as they were in contracts signed before Jan. 25, the day of the Big Wage Freeze...
...links to Chicago were not apparent at first. But the committee found some suspicious links to the governor's mansion in Tallahassee. A dog-track owner named William H. Johnston, whom the committee called "an associate of Capone mobsters," had contributed $100,000 to Governor Fuller Warren's campaign. Russell was a good friend of Johnston's, and his efforts to subdue S & G were greatly helped by the governor's special investigator, who obligingly raided S & G books pointed out by Russell. When Russell became an S & G partner, the investigator as obligingly withdrew from...
...Wednesday the United Labor Policy Committee voted to withdraw all union men from the mobilization machinery, in protest against Wilson's management. Specifically, they complained that wages had been frozen though rents, retail and farm prices, and profits were allowed to rise. Economic Stabilizer Johnston answered these criticisms Thursday by several concessions, allowing cost-of-living pay increases to carry wages above the previously-announced ceiling. But the deadlock remains, founded on a deeper dissatisfaction of labor...