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...before he caught a train to his $14.50-a-week job as a delivery boy. Now Dave is a $47-a-week milkman, and he combines his work with his training. He trots around his 12-mile route in Madstone, a Melbourne suburb, followed by his panting horse and milkwagon...
...Horses. Washington reporters themselves are far from blameless in their relations with the Administration. Some seem to feel that because their papers supported Ike, their hands are tied, that all stories must be favorable. Said one cynical newsman: "Reporters don't have to be told any more than milkwagon horses. They learned all the stops long ago, and they do it just by instinct.-Many a newsman also seems overawed by Ike's national popularity. "I don't think our readers are ready for critical reporting yet," says a top columnist...
...When milkwagon drivers refused to cross their fellow workers' picket line at a Detroit dairy, one sorrel horse grew tired of waiting and set off alone...
Revolt of the Nags. In The Bronx, a junk-wagon horse named Brownie ran away on a hot day, clattered down a flight of steps to a cellar door, broke in, relaxed in comfort. In Brooklyn, a milkwagon horse named Jerry deserted the beat he had been traveling for 13 years, clumped 17 miles off his course, stopped in front of a house, went to the front door and knocked. He got a two-day vacation...
Left untouched was the question at keenest issue now: whether labor unions as such may be prosecuted under the Sherman Act.† The Chief Justice said the question was not presented, despite the milkwagon driver defendants. Thus President William Green of the American Federation of Labor found no clue in the Supreme Court decision to the future of his building-trade unions-now widely indicted in the Justice Department's drive against trade restraints in the construction industry...