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...Committee for all plants in the Buffalo area. This committee, through the United States Employment Service, by two methods funneled all available men into plants where they were most needed: 1) unemployed men could get jobs only by going to plants designated by USES; 2) those with jobs could shift only with permission of their employers or WMC. Many an employer with a low labor priority balked. Organized labor promptly branded it "labor servitude," objecting because workers could no longer shop around for higher paying jobs...
Market at the Gate. When workers complained about high vegetable prices. Albina persuaded farmers to bring their produce right up to yard gates at shift-change times. Typical result: Employes bought peaches at $2 a box, which sold at $2.89 elsewhere...
...California hospital, where he was recovering from rabbit fever) is his office assistant. The moving spirit of "No Work, No Woo" is a 23-year-old brunette ex-Hollywood model, Jeannine Christiansen, a daughter by his first marriage. She is a $1.32-an-hour plate burner on the graveyard shift, and by turning down a date from a shiftless worker gave her father his catchiest anti-absenteeism campaign...
Ever since Franklin Roosevelt began lopping off one New Deal head after the other, professional liberals have viewed his shift to the right with bewildered alarm. Last week the New Republic's intellectual George Soule, who is known in liberal circles for his antiseptic aloofness, quietly dissected Franklin Roosevelt's recent behavior, pointed toward some cool conclusions. Wrote dispassionate Pundit Soule...
...drive against blackshirts, had now arrested the sisters Petacci. Commented the Swiss Neue Zürcher Zeitung: the deliberate blackening of Benito Mussolini's grey reputation is a rebuff to the Nazis, who still pretend that the ex-Duce is a great man; it is also a shift in political attitude that "may point to coming events...