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Showdown Ahead. But this was the only note of peace in the labor-management strife. Some 55,000 key workers in Canadian industry were on strike, or were ready to walk out. In steel, 15,000 steelworkers were negotiating for a 19½ raise, with another 10,000 steel-fabricating workers waiting on the outcome. In Windsor and Chatham 3,500 Chrysler Corp. workers struck last week for a $2-a-day raise. Some 6,000 General Motors workers may follow them out this week. To all unions, the 15? boost for the lumbermen was the minimum they wanted...
...Brush. Terrain over which the Truman Administration hunted them was thick with underbrush. Clausen's Case Co. has had plenty of labor strife. The nub of the present trouble is a letter written by union leaders in 1937 which recognized: 1) the right of any employe to join a union of his choosing, 2) the right of non-union workers to deal individually with the company. Triumphantly Clausen declared that the letter guaranteed that Case could remain an open shop. Union leaders declared the letter obsolete, and negotiations promptly broke down...
...President decides it is "vitally necessary to the maintenance of the national economy" to keep any strife-harassed industry running, he could proclaim a national emergency, give both sides 48 hours to end the lockout or strike, order labor leaders to send their men back to work...
...Harbin and Tsitsihar had fallen last week to the Reds. At a Chungking tea party the Generalissimo decided to postpone calling the National Assembly because the Communists refused to participate. Some of Chiang's advisers feared that time was now on the side of the Communists; because hungry, strife-torn China might blame the Government for failure to restore the peace the Reds had broken...
...charm of Army life, The touch of discipline and strife! The military magic made him hum: With the things he learned He has now returned, Still...