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...persuaded them to accept a truce and go back to work. In 1934 he spent six months on the Pacific Coast with the shipping strike. Same year he was occupied with the A. & P. strike; in 1935 with the Chevrolet strike (Toledo), the Edison strike (Toledo), the Industrial Rayon strike (Cleveland), soft coal strike negotiations, the longshoremen's strike (New Orleans). In 1936 he has been busy with the rubber strike (Akron), building service strike (Manhattan), anthracite negotiations, gas strike (Toledo), shipping strike (San Francisco). In three years he has spent less than a quarter of his time...
Besides lobbying through the Norris-LaGuardia Anti-Injunction Bill and preventing the confirmation of Judge John J. Parker, Herbert Hoover's nominee for the Supreme Court, McGrady enhanced his reputation by going in 1929 to Elizabethton, Tenn. to investigate for the A. F. of L. a strike of rayon workers, who were working 56 hours a week at 16? to 18? an hour. At 2 a. m. one morning a mob of truculent citizens routed him out of his hotel room and, with pistols in his ribs, drove him to Bristol, Va. By 8 a. m. he had hired...
...amazement of U. S. textile men, Amoskeag emerged the next year with a profit of $1,065,000. Dumaine had fired every nonessential jobholder in plant and office, cut wages, shaved overhead, started the production of rayon. It was a miracle of retrenchment but, except for a scant $31,000 in 1933, it was Amoskeag's last profitable year. Depression staggered the company in 1930 with a loss of $1,345,000 and during the next five years Amoskeag's losses piled up over $4,000,000. In two years the company paid...
Eastern Hopei lies between the Great Wall of Peiping and the vitally important port of Tientsin. One of the first moves of Puppet Yin was to cut customs duties to 25% of those of the Nationalist Government. Japanese junks landed huge cargoes of silk, rayon, woolen goods, cosmetics and, most of all, sugar at Hopei fishing villages. Trucks and canal boats, most of them flying Japanese flags, smuggled the goods into Peiping and Tientsin, have recently extended the trade to Kiangsu, Anhwei, Honan, Shensi and even Kansu province...
Rubber, silk, cellulose and certain other organic compounds contain "giant molecules" weighing hundreds of thousands and even millions of times as much as the hydrogen atom. The rayon industry (which last year produced more than 256,000,000 lb. of fabrics, employed 60,000 workers and paid them $60,000,000) is currently profiting by a clearer understanding of these mammoth particles. It has been found that cellulose molecules in cotton are chains of 3,500 links. Such long molecules could be seen under the microscope if they were fat enough. The new artificial fibre is built on the same...