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...that a movement got underway, led by General Motors and a few of the steel independents, to form a "united front" of big industry against the C. I. O. drive. Attending one of the "united front" meetings and being told that the time had come for a labor-capital showdown, Mr. Taylor arose to announce that he would have nothing to do with the scheme. And his feeling was so strong that the United Front soon fell apart...
...Showdown? Driving ahead against small sit-downs, Detroit Police next marched up to the Newton Packing Co. plant, called on the sitters to come out. To Sheriff Wilcox chagrin they promptly dropped their weapons, sheepishly filed out to be arrested for contempt of court. Some 100 women sitters in the Bernard Schwartz Cigar Corp. factory gave the officers more trouble, kicked, squealed, squirmed as they were driven out. When watching sympathizers began to pelt the police with rock-cored snowballs, 20 mounted officers charged into the crowd with nightsticks swinging. At that, Detroit's sympathy began swinging back...
...steel strike, the stock has climbed steadily, crossing par last month. By the start of last week Big Steel had assumed its pristine place as the stockmarket's undisputed leader. Evident it was by now that some people either knew or suspected that a long and costly showdown between the Steel Corporation and the CIO was not inevitable. Sure enough, the announcement soon came that President Benjamin F. Fairless of U. S. Steel's biggest operating subsidiary, Carnegie-Illinois Steel, was conferring with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, followed by the historic revelation that Chairman Myron C. Taylor...
Such speed on the part of the A. B. A. on a matter less than a week old was no less surprising than the vote by 150 lawyers-delegates deciding that some of the things they were doing were unconstitutional by A. B. A. laws. Brought to a showdown on a resolution urging the Federal Government to extend civil service to all employes except top Government officials, the House of Delegates voted itself out of order, threw out all other proposals not concerned with law and legal orders. Next day, however, delegates approved a civil service resolution relating to Federal...
...both were amateurs, they played four. Vines won them all. In a Davis Cup match in 1933 Perry beat Vines by default when Vines fainted at the match point in the fifth set. Vines became a professional later in 1933. Until last week, the closest thing to a contemporary showdown between Perry and Vines was an afternoon of informal practice when Perry was playing in and Vines reporting the U. S. Amateur Championship at Forest Hills last summer. At Forest Hills, Vines won every set they played. Last week, he was a top-heavy favorite to put his superiority...