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Black Eye. On the picket lines there was some grumbling last week because Murray had held out so long on the union shop. But he had a pressing reason: he wanted to get a union shop before the 1952 election. Now that the pattern of Government intervention in labor disputes is so thoroughly established, Murray feels that he needs a union shop to protect his gains in case an unfavorable Government climate may lie ahead. "We're stronger than ever before," crowed one C.I.O. executive after the settlement. "Now let them elect two Eisenhowers...
...most cases, civilian and defense production has enough steel to carry on for 20 to 35 days, although the pinch might come sooner for some manufacturers (e.g., jet engine plants), who need special high-alloy steel. On the television-equipped picket lines, the workers have not yet asked for help from union welfare funds, but the steelworkers' treasury and those of other big C.I.O. unions are ready to help in hardship cases.* Phil Murray and his lieutenants vowed that they would "never surrender." Said Murray: "There just isn't any group or citizen in this country big enough...
Germany's Walter Gieseking is one of the half-dozen top pianists in the world, but he is understandably chary about playing on U.S. soil. The last time he tried it, in Manhattan, he was met with picket lines and cries of "Nazi!" and the Justice Department asked him to postpone his concert till it investigated him (TIME, Feb. 7, 1949). Gieseking flew back to Europe in a huff. In Honolulu this week, 5,000 miles from Manhattan, Pianist Gieseking turned up again for a concert on U.S. territory. Almost the only ripple was the ripple of the applause...
...Immigration Service seemed to have no special questions to ask him (Gieseking was cleared by U.S. Military Government in Germany in 1947, has played for U.S. occupation troops). Four or five citizens wrote protesting letters to the Honolulu papers, but there was no picket line. Six hundred showed up for the concert in Dillingham Hall (capacity: 850), and Gieseking brought them to their feet for encores after a sparkling program of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Mendelssohn and Debussy. He gave them four encores, accepted a lei of pink carnations...
When they heard that the Boston Cinema Society was planning to show Birth of a Nation, members of the NAACP and the Equal Rights Society began addressing fervent protests to the City Censor and mumbling ominously about picket lines. Even though the film is a great cinema classic, it does present a rabidly Southern view of the Reconstruction era, and, after all, this would never...