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...last week the President's chief counsel, Charles Murphy, tramped patiently from meetings with the United Labor Policy Committee (the bosses of C.I.O., A.F.L., the railway and machinist unions) to the offices of Mobilizer Charles Wilson and Stabilizer Eric Johnston, to the White House, to Blair House and back again. Labor still demanded representation on the Administration's top policymaking level. That it would undoubtedly get. But labor also still clung stubbornly to another point on which its three delegates had been outvoted on the stabilization board...
Obviously, something had to give. At week's end came the first sign that the worried Johnston and Wilson had figured out some ways of placating labor. In his radio address (see above), Wilson hinted at new attempts to hold down food prices, promised to crack down on profiteers, pointedly noted that the views of farm ers and workers "must be represented in meeting national problems." More impor tant, he said: "Wage policies, too, are being modified again ..." But were they being modified enough to satisfy labor? Just to suggest the peril of not conceding labor enough, James...
...uneasy seat of chairman of WSB, Ching had announced the wage freeze, hastening to add that it was only temporary; some formula for thawing it out would soon be devised. His tripartite board had set to work. They were still working last week when Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston ordered them to reach a decision by week...
...Economic Stabilization Agency. Coordinates and supervises wage & price policies. Administrator: Eric A. Johnston...
...Checkers. The reason Ralph Kempner never married was quite simple. He fell in love with Mrs. Johnston's daughter-in-law Elissa, whose husband was often out of town. Primarily, Into Thin Air is a story of adultery, handled with a delicacy and understanding that few U.S. writers have brought to the subject. Author Beck manages with exquisite taste to give dignity and beauty to the love of Ralph and Elissa even as it swamps both of them in guilt. Neither has the strength to admit the guilt and ask Harold Johnston to agree to a divorce. When Johnston...