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Three grizzled prospectors - Arrin Thorpe of the U. S., Joanes Van Steck, a Frenchman, and Antonio Hill, a German- weary from months of prospecting, stopped their pack burros near the Piedra Candela settlement in the shadow of the Santa Maria Mountains on the Costa Rican-Panamanian border one day last week, prepared to lay out claims. Driving the first claim-stake, the ground beneath their feet gave way and the trio dropped into an abandoned mine shaft. Before their startled eyes stood 35 gold ingots, each weighing 50 lb., neatly stacked against the wall. Nearby lay equipment for panning gold...
Appointed. Charlotte Carr, 451sh, executive director of New York City's Emergency Relief Bureau, onetime (1930-34) Pennsylvania Secretary of Labor & Industry; as head resident of Chicago's famed Hull House, pioneer U. S. social settlement, founded by the late, great Jane Addams who ran it from...
...Bridges credo calling for unity not only among waterfront workers but all workers in the surrounding territory. So he went after the warehousemen, who stand economically between the longshoremen and the teamsters. There he clashed with Dave Beck in a violent struggle which is still far short of settlement. Meantime Bridges is being attacked on the flank by Harry Lundeberg, a tough, towering Norwegian from Oslo who arrived on the Pacific Coast a few years after Harry Bridges. Like Bridges, he is a life-long unionist who was catapulted to power in the 1934 strike but in the Sailors...
...Republic, Inland and Youngstown Sheet & Tube-had not heard the last of S. W. O. C. From now on the strike will become a campaign of attrition-to harass the companies at every step with the hope of raising the cost of making steel to a point where any settlement would seem sweet...
...final pledge was not to discriminate between strikers and non-strikers when the march back-to-work began. C.I.O.'s regional director, Van A. Bittner, telephoned the East Chicago pickets: "For God's sake don't let anything interfere! We've obtained a very fine settlement." The grim picket line became a victory parade and 12,000 men returned to their jobs...