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...weeks the whole U.S. rubber industry faced the possibility of a shutdown as the result of a strike of A.F. of L. workers at the Calco Chemical Division of American Cyanimid Co., Bound Brook, N.J. Reason: the plant produces aniline oil, an accelerator for curing rubber. Management and employes, at the appeal of the National Defense Mediation Board, signed a truce, agreed to keep working while demands for a closed shop and 10?-an-hour rise were negotiated...
...special law had been passed; the whole thing was a voluntary restriction, recommended by Petroleum Coordinator "Horrible Harold" Ickes. Unable to frighten motorists into more economical habits, he decided to try forcing them into it by inconvenience. The oil companies suggested the shutdown, and when Ickes accepted it. at once closed their own stations, asked their dealers to do likewise. In cities, most stations complied, figured it would solve labor shortage, cut expenses. Rural dealers, weary of 18-hour days at the pumps, were glad to hear of the edict, for the most part obeyed it. On New York...
...week was Gotham Silk Hosiery Co.'s Courtland mill in Philadelphia. Its 600 employes would soon be lost in Philadelphia's defense boom. Quite different was the outlook in North Carolina, where 22,000 hosiery workers face unemployment within two weeks. In Burlington, N.C., for example, a shutdown would affect 6,000 workers, ultimately cut off almost all the town's income. Mill managers planned 1) to stretch silk operations with substitutes in welt and feet, and with a three-day week, 2) to pray for early arrival of fine rayon, and that women will buy rayon...
...Grand Rapids Brass Co. makes refrigerator and furniture hardware, has cut down from three shifts to one, faces complete shutdown as zinc rationing tightens. Its general manager, Samuel Strasser, has been to Washington for defense business, has written to hundreds of prime contractors. Only result: an invitation from Detroit's Defense Contract Service office to bid on two British fuses. Yet the company has 200 machine tools (only eight of them usable for the fuses), a trained engineering staff, 16 tool & die makers, plenty of plant space for defense work...
...YORK--Negotiators for 12 southern soft coal operators withdrew today from wage-hour discussions between Appalachian bituminous operators and the United Mine Workers and asked that the National Defense Board undertake to settle the 12-state bituminous mine shutdown...