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...brewed during its absence. A strike for a general wage increase in the plants of Motor Products Corp. (maker of windshield frames, instrument panels, window reveals et al. for Chrysler, Dodge, De Soto, Plymouth, Hudson, Ford) had put 5,600 men out of work. The Wolman Board proposed a settlement. The strikers promptly rejected it, tore up the proposed peace terms. Short of parts, Hudson Motors shut down, temporarily threw 18,000 men out of work, was able finally to open shop again when its workers (unlike Nash's and Seaman Body's) accepted a 10% wage increase...
...Macauley, Walter P. Chrysler. Charles W. Nash, Roy D. Chapin. Next day he conferred with A. F. of L. men led by President William Green and William Collins, organizer for the industry. Then for three days General Johnson shuttled from one group to the other trying to arrange a settlement. At the end of the first day General Johnson held up his thumb and forefinger with only a hypothetical peanut between and reported, ''They are just that far apart." At the end of the second day the peanut had become a watermelon...
Said the President: "I would like you to know that in the settlement just reached ... we have charted a new course in social engineering...
...Japanese immigrants were still welcome in Paraguay last week. A shipload of them arrived in Asunsion on their way to dig cotton plantations out of the forests of Eastern Paraguay not far from a similar settlement of White Russians. The Paraguayan Government demanded only one thing: Should the present tide in the Chaco war turn and Bolivia start to invade Paraguayan territory, the new immigrants must serve in the army. ¶ Next problem was Russia and the Kamchatka fishing leases (TIME, March 5). Russia had refused to renew the Japanese leases because she felt that with the yen off gold...
...board of Lawyers County Trust Co., Meenan Coal Co. and Federal Broadcasting Co., and chairman of the board of trustees of the College of Forestry at Syracuse University: director of New York Life Insurance Co., Consolidated Indemnity and Insurance Co., Knott Corp., National Surety Corp., the Henry Street Settlement, Beekman Street Hospital and the Leauue of New York Theatres...