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...union policy the two groups are clearly split on two major points. Whereas the Martin group is planning a big push on Henry Ford, the Communist "party line" is against a Ford showdown, feeling that at this time it would be disastrous. On the other hand the Mortimer group believes that in negotiating a new contract with General Motors it would be very helpful to have a series of short, controlled, harassing sit-downs and "quickies." And in the recent Fisher Body outlaw Sit-down (TIME, Nov. 29), the followers of the "party line" fought desperately, if futilely, to have...
Just as they avoided a showdown on Typographer Howard, the A. F. of L. also dodged the prime question of whether or not to expel the rebel C. I. O. unions- despite the thunderous talk of "crushing John L. Lewis." The resolutions committee recommended, and the convention voted, not summary expulsion but authority for the A. F. of L.'s executive council to expel when & if they...
...meaningless gesture to Harry Bridges, who is now West Coast director for C. I. O. Longshoreman Bridges offered last week to settle the dispute by a National Labor Relations Board election but Teamster Beck, having only a handful of warehousemen signed up, flatly refused. "This," cried he, "is a showdown fight. We'll close every port on the Pacific Coast where warehousemen are not teamsters," "These gentlemen," rasped Longshoreman Bridges, "not only want a labor war but demand...
...suspended animation was last week brought one decisive step closer to solution. Senator Joseph T. Robinson, deputed by the President to formulate a compromise on the question of enlarging the Supreme Court (TIME, June 14), last week made his choice and trotted it out before the Senate for a showdown. The bill he chose was modeled after one originally sponsored by Senators Hatch of New Mexico and Logan of Kentucky. Its chief terms as compared to those of the President's original proposal...
...second term finds it difficult to control Congress, and by forcing Congress to pass his Court bill, he could have shown Congressmen that he still had the upper hand. Usually a master of compromise, he had refused all compromise on the Court issue as if determined to force a showdown at the beginning of his second term. From this standpoint the Van Devanter resignation was distinctly bad news...