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...bombs, but tempers were fraying. Meanwhile U. S. Marines joined forces with British police and soldiers to break up a riot by 1,000 native workers striking in the International Settlement at the Chinese Fou Foong Flour Mill. Since it is within 20 yards of the Sino-Japanese battle sector, just across Soochow Creek, the mill hands demanded a month's salary in advance for working in such dangerous quarters, subsided after 25 strikers were admitted to hospitals "suffering from scalp wounds and tear...
Biggest human cogs dropped from the machine which Stalin is trying to make of Russia were last week the Commissar of Light Industry, Comrade Isidor E. Liubimov and his vice commissars. In the heavy industry sector, just two weeks after being appointed its Commissar, big-nosed Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich was furiously turning the Soviet coal industry upside down last week. He fired both Ivan Fesenko and Zhuravlev, respectively the chief and assistant chief of the coal industry for "failing to clean up the last vestiges of sabotage by wreckers and thus, in effect, assisting the Trotskyist-Bukharinist wreckers in their...
Superficially it looked as if John Lewis had picked a poor time to assume one of his haughty poses. Washington newshawks noted that he appeared tired and harassed. But fundamentally there was little reason for him to admit a general defeat. "Little Steel" was only one sector of the steel front; he still had the majority of the industry in his pocket. Moreover, steel is only one of C.I.O.'s many fronts. In other mass-production industries like oil, glass, rubber, motor, mining, there have been no serious setbacks. C.I.O.'s Transport Workers Union has been sweeping...
...last week was also a week in which, with strike action halted, C.I.O. could consolidate its gains, refresh its leadership, impose discipline. And it was the week in which, though halted elsewhere, C.I.O. at last cracked the Inland sector of "Little Steel's" united front...
...Committee for Industrial Organization, backed by the Wagner Act, Boss John L. Lewis proposes to extend to all unorganized industrial workers willy-nilly, was content to leave the Motor Front quiescent for seven days. But on the Steel Front one sector reached the tense pitch of martial...