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Seattle's loud, husky Lewis Schwellenbach chucked a lifetime job as Federal Judge in May 1945 for a traditionally thankless job as U.S. Secretary of Labor. Almost everybody in Washington wondered why. By last week even Lew Schwellenbach had run out of answers...
...Administration took an anxious look at the country's wornout farm implements. Old strikes at other farm implement companies (International Harvester, Caterpillar Tractor, John Deere, Oliver Farm Equipment) had already set farm production back. Labor Secretary Schwellenbach looked down his gun. He told Clausen and Geist to make "a real effort" to settle things-or the U.S. would move...
...John Llewellyn Lewis did was wave the threat of a new strike at the end of May-by the anthracite miners. Nevertheless, Labor Secretary Lewis B. Schwellenbach appointed onetime Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. McGrady as special conciliator, who persuaded Lewis and the operators to resume negotiations. This week the crunch of the strike had come. Next week would come the crisis...
WASHINGTON--Soft coal operators were revealed tonight to have informed Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach that they fear the granting of a tonnage assessment to the United Mine Workers for a health and welfare fund would establish a precedent which other unions might attempt to follow
...conference assumed the air of a third degree. For 15 minutes the three Government men left Murray and Fairless alone, to talk things over by themselves. Then Schwellenbach took Murray aside, while Snyder talked to Fairless in the Cabinet Room. John Steelman flitted between the groups, a combined kibitzer and interlocutor. Then, as in a game of musical chairs, Snyder and Schwellenbach switched partners. Finally all five men got into a huddle again...