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...trouble started in the "pot room" (final stage of aluminum reduction). Irked by the sweltering heat and the inaction of the company and the National Catholic Syndicate of Aluminum Workers on requested wage increases, 300 huskies quit work and set up a shout for "a dollar an hour." They tossed out protesting "front-office" workers, told company police to go chase themselves. In violation of Canada's labor-conciliation law they staged a sit-down in the pot room, thereby capturing a plant surrounded by anti-aircraft batteries, as carefully guarded against outside attack as any in North America...
From millions of U.S. kitchens, attics, cellars, industrial nooks & crannies poured millions of pots & pans, kettles, hair curlers, meat cutters, ice-cream dippers, anything and everything made of aluminum. Just how much usable aluminum-for-defense was collected will not be known until the mountains of donated scrap are melted down. (None of it can be used in defense industry, but this scrap will release virgin aluminum that can be so used.) But long before the last pot had clattered into the last community bin, the drive had shown what happens when the U.S. citizenry is given something specific, useful...
...Washington housewife rushed out of her house, retrieved a coffee pot which her child had thrown into a collection truck, withdrew $300 in bills, tossed the pot back. Said the housewife: "My life's savings...
...Chicago's 400,000 Polish-Americans whipped up a fervid campaign with drum-&-bugle corps, peasant songs, shouted refrains from Poland's national anthem (Poland's Not Yet Dead). From a Polish family in Manhattan came a pot with this message pasted inside: "Lots of luck to this bomber. Hope it gets Hitler...
...Patrolman John Keany, supervising collections at a Manhattan police station, reported the following incident to the New York Times: "Funny thing happened. A woman come up with a big pot that was black as your hat. Couple of other women saw her put it on the pile and jumped all over her. Said that was no way to give aluminum to the Government, and she must keep some house if her pots were that black. The woman didn't answer back, but just got in a taxi and rode away...