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Show UNIONS LOSE MONEY Big industrial unions naturally don't want any trek back to the farm. It means loss of dues. The United Auto Workers' 1,000,000 dues-paying membership has now dropped to about half of that. The drop was so severe that the cost of running the union went in the red . . . UAW chiefs are going about their wage protests in an orderly, fair-minded manner, have done their best to stop the Kelsey-Hayes Kelsey-Hayes wildcat strike . . . But some union leaders prefer strikes. It helps increase their power in the union ... In Schenectady, General Gen-eral Electric's Charles E. Wilson long has advocated higher wapes. He says it helps him pell electric refrigerators, electric irons, elu. lie has been ready to make upward up-ward wage adjustments voluntar-: voluntar-: ily, just as wise Standard Oil of N, J. increased its pay immediately immedi-ately and automatically at the end of the war. However, certain CIO Electrical Elec-trical Workers seem more interested in-terested in a strike than a voluntary vol-untary or negotiated wage buost . . . some labor leaders, unfortunately, unfortu-nately, seem dplibera'ely looking for strike? among them John L. Lewis. They bring disfavor on the heads of other labor leaders, have givpn the entire labor move-; move-; mcnt a bad setback with public j opinion . . . Public opinion in j some areas ia now so anti-labor j that Truman would get thunderous applause if he called out U. S. troops as strike-breakers. |