LABOR: Bonus March

Henry Wallace, who likes to walk to work from the Wardman Park Hotel, was using a long Government Cadillac last week — and entering his office by a side driveway of Washington's massive Commerce Building. Reason: there was a picket line at the front door. The National Maritime Union, which put it there, was picketing not Henry Wallace and his Commerce Department but their tenants, Vice Admiral Emory S. Land and his War Shipping Administration.

In a friendly but determined way, other N.M.U. patrols marched outside 24 WSA offices the country over. But Joe Curran, the...

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