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...A.F.L. and C.I.O., campaigning for members in the South, were so busy belaboring each other that they failed to notice one important fact: the South's workers did not seem greatly interested in either of them. In three NLRB elections last week at the Army-controlled, civilian-operated Oak Ridge atomic-bomb plants, nearly 40% of the 12,000 eligible workers voted to join no union at all. This was enough to force run-off elections all around...
Bravely, the C.I.O. produced its excuses: native Tennesseans (some 70% of Oak Ridge workers) are traditionally tough to corral; James A. Barrett, top organizer of the A.F.L., had won a hefty head start by wartime control of A.F.L. construction workers who had since moved into the plants as operating employes...
...return match at Oak Ridge, the C.I.O. was still counting on the lure of the 18½? pay raise it had already won in rubber, auto and steel. But it had still found no answer to the A.F.L.'s neatest trick: a $100-reward offer for proof that the C.I.O.'s Gas, Coke and Chemical Workers were not Communist-dominated. So far, there were no takers...
...since the modern Eisteddfod (pronounced eye-steth-vud, means "get together") began in the 18th Century, men & women from all Wales and Welshmen from all parts of the world came to sing around the Druids' Circle, marked out last week by old moss-covered stones in a cool oak-shaded glade just outside Mountain Ash. They heard the venerable Arch Druid (Congregationalist Minister Crwys Williams) open the six-day festival with the traditional words, "A oes heddwch-Is it peace?" The voices of 11,000 Welsh miners and farmers cried an answering "Heddwch!" The Arch Druid smiled, murmured...
...place first or second in the first four classes of competition will receive silver or bronze medals. Winners in the fifth and sixth classes, the compromise and wherry classes, will be awarded oak plaques...