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...Pasadena, California last year. Zoll was formerly National Commander of the "American Patriots, Inc." When New York's Station WMCA dropped Father Coughlin from its programs in 1938, Zoll was indicted for attempting to extort $7,500 from the station's president in return for calling off a picket line his group had thrown about the building. He was never convicted...
Outside in the rain, a picket line of antiCommunist Czechs marched-as they had marched when Prochazka arrived in New York (TIME, Aug. 20)-carrying such signs as, "How dare you come to a free country with blood dripping from your hands?" Prochazka, a tough, doctrinaire Communist behind his mild, owl-eyed front, was with the President five minutes. The dialogue was described later by White House Press Chief Joe Short (who got it from the President...
When the I.U.M.M.S.W. walked out, many members of A.F.L. craft unions who work in the same mines and plants refused to cross picket lines, bringing the total idled to 100,000. Production of strategic lead and zinc was cut along with copper. With 95% of the country's non-ferrous metal mining production shut down, the union appealed to President Truman to seize the industry. Instead, the President asked the workers to get back on the job while the Wage Stabilization Board investigates...
...airport, the big Mainliners of United Air Lines touched down all over the country and the 900 men who fly them-most of them members of the Air Line Pilots Association, A.F.L.-walked off. Their strike stranded 2,000 passengers, cut off 600 flights. On to the picket line marched the highest-paid strikers in history; Stratocruiser pilots make up to $16,587 a year...
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