LABOR: Steel Job Done

Harry Hopkins. WPAdministrator, making a speech at Scranton, Pa. last week, tossed his hearers a prophecy: within six months U. S. Labor will have completely organized the mass production industries. "And," he added, "nobody will be talking about it. It will be accepted as a fact."

Three days later the biggest labor election yet held bolstered up the Hopkins prophecy. Two months ago U. S. Steel, kingfish in the heavy industry pond, voluntarily began signing contracts with C. I. O.'s Steel Workers Organizing Committee (TIME, March 15). The small fry of the...

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