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...Hard to Shift Fifties...
...fortnight Lubin returned with a plan that pleased everybody-shipbuilders, union men, OPM, the Navy, the Maritime Commission. In the first overall, zone-wide agreement of its kind, labor gained a $1.12 wage scale (compared to $1 in most yards before), a premium of 10% for the first night shift and 15% for the second night shift. Management got help toward putting production on a continuous basis by a uniform settlement on Saturday rates (time-and-a-half). With all yards offering the same terms (even those now paying more than $1.12 will adopt that rate for future employes), workmen...
...matter how you look at it any such action would be government by minority. Almost always when the President has changed his mind before, on the questions of economy, relief, and the gold standard for instance, he had a majority of the citizenry standing behind him approving any shift he might make. This time he obviously does not, and it appears that all the powers of press and publicity will not sway that vital two-thirds. We have seen government by militant authority before and we have labelled it fascism...
...effort to improve one of these two evenly-matched boats at the expense of the other, Bolles evolved a complicated shift which brought Sophomores Bus Curwen, Gerry Prince and Junior Reggie Filz up to the seconds from the so-called third boat, while Bill Homans, Bull Reece, and John Erakine went down a peg to make room for them. Such shifts so not tell the main story, however, for last year's Varsity stroke, Jack Wilson, has relinquished his stern heat and moved to two in order to make room for Curwen, who is now setting the pace...
They were there at dawn when workers arrived for the morning shift. Some non-union men broke through. Pickets jeered. But there was no serious violence until 200 nonstriking Negroes, who had remained inside the beleaguered plant, made a sortie through Gate 4 armed with iron pipes, steel bars, bolts, razors, knives, and charged the pickets. Hot & heavy was the battle until the attackers withdrew, fled back inside...