Tension was eased slightly by several favourable developments. The AF.O.L. accepted a plan providing for resumption of negotiations with the CIE. on a dispute concerning the California-Hawaiian line. Extension of the ultimatum of the American Newspaper Guild improved. the situation. An intro-union dispute of A.F.O.L. pile drivers was settled.
Other factors brightening the labour outlook included the decision of C.L.O.' miners to make no attempt at the present to return to mass Valley, the lifting of the AFOL. boycott on CIE. Lumber, and an agreement of the associated farmers of the A.FO.L. to accept a committee of 43 to discuss the workers' and farmers' dispute—United Press.
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