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Meanwhile, the Briggs Manufacturing Co. found the time ripe for firing seven union shop stewards and committeemen at their Mack Avenue plant. The men were accused of fomenting 57 strikes at the Briggs plant. Immediately, 5,800 Briggs employes walked out, started the company's 161st wartime strike. The company fired eight more union men. The union local voted to stay out until the dis charged men were rehired. As the U.A.W.'s harried International officers sought to smooth things over, they were picketed by Briggs strikers. The pickets gathered under an office occupied by George Addes...
...which lies on the Rhine's west bank and around which the Nazis had organized their strongest perimeter defense. Then, instead of crossing the Erft, the Ninth (six infantry and three armored divisions) wheeled north. The move appeared to achieve some tactical surprise. Big industrial towns fell like ripe fruit: München-Gladbach, Krefeld, Rheydt (birthplace of Propagandist Paul Joseph Goebbels). Krefeld, with a peacetime population of 170,000, surpassed Aachen as the biggest prize yet in the west...
WESTERN FRONT Right & Ripe...
...industrial Silesia has been invaded by the Russians. From the Roer Eisenhower had been preparing to attack in December when Rundstedt's blow fell. Now Eisenhower was preparing to attack again, in the same valley. He had completely regained the initiative. The place was right, the time was ripe- and, according to the nervous Ger mans, Lieut. General William Hood Simpson's Ninth Army was accumulating potent masses of armor. Lack of armor in heavy concentration was one of the reasons why the November offensive on the Cologne plain had failed. The Ninth may soon write a different...
Promptly invited to perform, he responded in the ripe soothsaying tradition of telling the customers what they want to hear. This is what he thought would please American soldiers...