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...Actors Guild got producers to meet its demands by a threat to join the strike of the Federated Motion Picture Crafts (painters, scene designers, hairdressers, make-up artists) which began April 30. By last week, Crafts pickets had been reduced from indignant lines to a single bored armband wearer at each studio gate. On the same day that the actors began working under their new scale, Federal Labor Conciliator Edward A. Fitzgerald arranged a compromise between leaders of the striking group and its rival, the International Alliance of Theatrical & Stage Employes. Basis of the Fitzgerald compromise was that scenic artists...
When Myron Charles Taylor of U. S. Steel and John Llewellyn Lewis of C. I. O. sealed their historic bargain last March, most observers sighed with relief, assumed that the threat of a great steel strike which had been hanging over the nation for months was ended. They reckoned, however, without Steel's major "independents" - Bethlehem, Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, National, Jones & Laughlin, Crucible, Inland, American Rolling Mill-to whom Big Steel's concession was a shocking betrayal of the industry's traditional united front against unionism...
...Hindenburg was an act of sabotage. For the peaceful world today, the world that seeks to join hands in the perfection of greater technologies, that seeks mutual enrichment and mutual understanding by all means of physical, intellectual and spiritual intercourse, is, indeed, being sabotaged by the fear and the threat of war. The Hindenburg represented the world and for that reason our eyes lighted when we saw its silver grandeur in the sky. It contended with another world which might make it at any moment an object of terror and of hatred...
Introducing the Washington stroke and taking up where Jim Way left off last summer, Harrison Sanford has been working feverishly on his Cornell crew all year, and today it looks as if the Big Red will be a real threat...
...makers of boyish fun dissent from such public discipline, let them reflect for a moment upon their own private situation. University students today live in a time of serious economic unrest, not to say social crisis. Lawless action has been rife in many an industrial quarter. There exists a threat, both overt and implied, to the whole American order of education, technology, law, business and industry, in which the youth of America's colleges hope to take future places of leadership, or at least of steady and gainful employment...