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...Federal Government may publicly express a pious wish that "industrial conflict would cease", or the virile hope that some "settlement satisfactory to both sides could be worked out", but certain it is that bloody strife between capital and labor will continue as long as organizations like the C.I.O. established for the deification of an aspiring Mussolini like John L. Lewis know they can count on the support of Federal, State, and local governments to come to their rescue when it appears that man's sacred right to work might be enforced after...
...Alaska everybody who is anybody knows who Martin Slisco is. North of the Arctic Circle 200 miles as the planes fly from Fairbanks toward Point Barrow the roadhouse and store of Martin Slisco queen it over the 48-house settlement of Wiseman, trading and social centre for the 127 whites and Eskimos who live in the gold & game filled 15.000 square miles of the upper Koyukuk River basin. Since 1910 Bachelor Slisco, 53, has lived in Wiseman. Since 1924 he has owned and operated the roadhouse and store, welcoming the dog-mushers, riverboaters and flyers; playing nightly host at phonograph...
...session. No matter how tall the corn grows this year, the 1937 crop will not start to market until October. July corn got above as the high as $1.25 per bu., nearly 10?above the same wheat delivery. And the terrific demand for grain in hand for settlement of May contracts continued to be visible in a 13?to 14? premium on cash corn, 10? on cash rye, 8? to 11? on cash oats...
...Iron & Steel Institute in Manhattan last week. To the nation's steelmasters, gathered in record numbers against a backdrop of the biggest steel strike since 1919 (see p. 13); the outstanding and directly related question was Mr. Grace's successor as head of the Steel Institute. The settlement by which Myron Taylor had made his peace with John L. Lewis had split the industry as it had never been split before. Outmaneuvered by Mr. Taylor, outsmarted by Mr Lewis the big independent steelmakers were fired with a wrath born of isolation. Big Steel and the little fellows...
Clothes which are collected will be distributed to the Red Cross, the Grenfell Mission, and to specially recommended needy families in Cambridge. Magazines and books go to Boston settlement houses and hospitals...