MOUNTING COST OF PORTAL TO PORTAL CLAIMS
CEW YOUK, ,lau. 17.
A crowd of 300 to 400 lumdred A.F.L. members at Sheffield, Alabama, raided the G.I.O. portal to portal suit headquarters and severely beat up a dozen members of thc rival organisatiou. Tlie raid followed tlie A.F.L. president, Mr. William Grcen's, denouncement of tlie C.I.O. suits as untinieiy and unwarranted. The chairman of tho Aircraft Industrial Association testilied . before thc Senate Judiciarv Sub-Gobiniittee lteai:-; ing evidenco on legislatioii to outlaw portal to portal suits that; the suitk liled or likcly to be tiled against the 12 largest- aircraft coinpanies totalled 461,000,000 dollars which . was greater than the entire cash -and seeufities owned by the eompailies and; wduld wipe them out. . ; • ■ The spokesnian for '-ihe steel iiidustry*said thc. 1,000,000,000 dollars in suits against steel,firaas;,was more than the entire eash resoiirccs of that industry. The Byrd expedition ships reached Lit'tlCf'^ymdrie^ on the 15th and found the Bay of Wiialos frozen over and its entrance the smailest over seen. The icCbrealcer Northwind immediately began breaking. up the ice to pcrmit tlie ships to enter and moor in the bay. The Little Ameriea camp was siglited apparently little ehanged although it liad nioved oue and a-quarter miles eastward with thc movement of the great glacier sinee 1941 wlien tlie camp was establislied. — New York cable.
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 January 1947, Page 3
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