A Closed Shop With A Loophole

The following is a clipping from the Christian Labor Herald: The contract with the Hekman Biscuit Company will be renewed on March 15, 1947. Negotiations began already in January when an additional wage increase was sought by the unions involved, United Truckers and Warehousemen, C.L.A., and United Bakery Workers, C.L.A. A wage increase retroactive to January 15, 1947, was agreed upon, which brings wages in the Hekman plant to a level as high as that of any bakery workers in either A.F.L. or...