Washington, June 21.
It is announced that the Ford Motor Company has signed a contract with the United Automobile Workers Union providing for trade union shop.
The union is affiliated to the C.L.O. (Committee for Industrial Organization).
The announcement of the historic agreement with the United Auto-tomb.
The world's biggest city is like a country crossroads town, At midnight, it is silent, black, ominous. Just" above the roof-tops of old London hangs a quarter moon, pale and unreal.
A lone cyclist pedals through the streets, hurrying home. At the Savoy and other hotels, men who have money to spend sip drinks, talk, dance and make merry, It is hard to believe that it is wartime.
Taking no Chances But underneath the streets, in the tubes, families of those whose homes have been blown to bits by the blitzes try to sleep. They know the Luftwaffe is returning and they are taking no chances. They go underground at twilight every night.
Those who are not bedded in bunks go to sleep but they hardly rest They lie in fantastic positions, pressed together in the smallest possible space. Some are fitted uneasily aslant two or three stone steps to make way for those who come and go at night. Many are meagerly covered.
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